A39669:2723
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.
Secondly, The desperate wickedness of the world in rejecting the only remedy prepared for them. This was long since foretold by the Prophet Isaiah 53. 3. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, 1and we esteemed him not: His poor and mean appearance, which should endear him beyond all considerations to the souls of men (since it was for their sakes that he emptied himself of all his glory,) yet this lays him under contempt, he is looked on as the very offcast of men; when his own love to man had emptied him of all his riches, the wickedness of men loaded him with contempt, and as it was prophesied of him, so it was, and at this day is sadly verified all the world over. For
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] desitio virorum. Nil habit infoelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Juver.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 desitio virorum. Nil habit infoelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Juver.
First, The Pagan world hath no knowledge of him, they are lost in darkness. God hath suffered them to walk in their own ways, Acts 14. 16.
Secondly, The Mahometans which overspread so great a part of the world reject him, and instead of the blessed Gospel which they hiss out with abhorrence, embrace the blasphemous and ridiculous Alcoran, which they confidently affirm to have come down from God immediately in that laylatto Hanzili (as they call it) the night of demission, calling all Christians Cafirouna (i. e.) infidels.