A39669:2724
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.
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.
Secondly, The Mahumetans which overspread so great a part of the world reject him, and instead os the blessed Gospel which they hiss out with abhorrence, embrace the blasphemous and ridiculous Alcoran, which they confidently affirm to have come down srom God immediately in that laylatto Hanzili (as they call it) the night of demission, calling all Christians Cafirouna (i. e.) infidels.
Thirdly, The Jews reject him with abhorrence, and spit at his very name, and being blindfolded by the Devil, they call Jesus Anathema, 1 Cor. 12. 3. And in a blind zeal for Moses, blaspheme him as an Impostor. He came to his own, and his own received him not, John 1. 11.