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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE EPISTLE.
Christian Reader,
Every Creature by the instinct of nature, or by the light of reason strives to avoid danger, and get out of harms way. The Cattle in the fields presaging a storm at hand, fly to the hedges and thickets for shelter. The Fowls of Heaven by the same natural instinct, perceiving the approach of Winter, take their timely flight to a warmer Climate. This *Naturalists have observed of them, and their observation is confirmed by Scripture testimony: of the Cattle it is said, Job 37. 6, 7, 8. He saith to ⟨image 9⟩the Snow, be thou on the earth, likewise the small rain, and the great rain of his strength; then the beasts go into dens and remain in their places: And of the Fowls of the air it is said, Jer. 8. 7. The Stork in the Heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the Turtle and the Crane, and the Swallow observe the time of their coming.
EVery Creature by the instinct of nature, or by the light of reason strives to avoid danger, and get out of harms way. The Cattel in the fields presaging a storm at hand, fly to the hedges and thickets for shelter. The Fowls of Heaven by the same natural instinct, perceiving the approach of Winter, take their timely flight to a warmer Climate. This