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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.
Reader, it is thy one thing necessary to get a cleared interest in Jesus Christ: which being once obtained, thou mayest face the storm with boldness, and say Come troubles and distresses, losses and trials, prisons and death; I am provided for you; do your worst, you can do me no harm: let the winds roar, the lightnings flesh, the rains and hail fall never so furiously, I have a good roof over my head, a comfortable lodging provided for me: my place of defence is the munition of rocks, where bread shall be given me, and my waters shall be sure, Isa. 33. 16.
Reader, it is thy one thing necessary to get a cleared interest in Jesus Christ: which being once obtained, thou maist face the storm with boldness, and say Come troubles and distresses, losses and tryals, prisons and death; I am provided for you; do your worst, you can do me no harm: let the winds roar, the lightnings flesh, the rains and hail fall never so furiously, I have a good roof over my head, a comfortable lodging provided for me: my place of defence is the munition of rocks, where bread shall be given me, and my waters shall be sure, Isa. 33. 16.
The design of the ensuing Treatise is to assist thee in this great work: and though it was promised to the world many years past, yet providence hath reserved it for the fittest season, and brought it to thy hand in a time of need.
It contains the method of grace in the application of the great redemption to the souls of men, as the former part contains the method of grace in the impetration thereof by Jesus Christ. The acceptation God hath given the former part, signified by the desires of many for the publication of this; hath at last prevailed with me, (notwithstanding the secret consciousness of my inequality to so great an undertakement) to adventure this second part also upon the ingenuity and candour of the Reader.