A39669:2657
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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Sixthly, The pride and self-conceitedness of many thousands who profess Christianity, plainly shows their minds to be blinded, by the Sophistry of Satan, and that they do not understand themselves, and the woeful state of their own souls. Those that see God in the clearest light, abhor themselves in the deepest humility, Isa. 6. 5. Job 42. 5. If ever the Lord had effectually opened your eyes by a clear discovery of your state by nature, and the course of your life under the efficacy and influence of continual temptations and corruptions; how would your plumes fall? None in the world would rate you lower, than your selves would. By all which it appears, that multitudes are blinded by the God of this world:
Sixthly, The pride and self-conceitedness of many thousands who profess Christianity, plainly shews their minds to be blinded, by the Sophistry of Satan, and that they do not understand themselves, and the woful state of their own souls. Those that see God in the clearest light, abhor themselves in the deepest humility, Isa. 6. 5. Job 42. 5. If ever the Lord had effectually opened your eyes by a clear discovery of your state by nature, and the course of your life under the efficacy and influence of continual temptations and corruptions; how would your plumes fall? None in the world would rate you lower, than your selves would. By all which it appears, that multitudes are blinded by the God of this world:
Thirdly, In the third place, we are to consider what policies Satan useth to blind the minds of them that believe not, 1and we shall find there are three sorts of policies practised by the God of this world upon the minds and understandings of men, which he darkens,