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The Method of Grace
The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mystery of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mysterie of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed by M. White for Francis Tyton, 1681
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Thirdly, It is not opposed to all kind of influences upon the affections, for it is possible the Gospel may touch the affections themselves, and cause some sweet Motions and Raptures in them; and yet be an hidden Gospel to the soul, Heb. 6. 5, 9.
Secondly, But if these three things may consist with spiritual blindness, unto what then is it opposed? To which I answer, that Spiritual blindness stands only opposed unto that saving Manifestation of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, by the Spirit, whereby the soul is regenerated, and effectually changed by a real conversion unto God: Where-ever the Gospel thus comes in the demonstration of the Spirit, and of power; producing such an effect as this in the soul; it is no longer an hidden Gospel to that soul, though such persons do not see clearly all that glory which is revealed by the Gospel: though they know but in part, and see darkly as through a glass; yet the eyes of their understandings are opened, and the things which belong to their peace are not hidden from them.
Secondly, But though this be the happiness of some men, 1yet it is demonstrable, that the eyes of many are blinded by the God of this world, and the Gospel is an hidden Gospel from them: for,
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