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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 Lord hath kept an account of every year and day of his patience towards you, Luke 13. 7. These three years I came seeking fruit on this Fig-tree, and find none, and Jer. 25. 3. These three and twenty years have I spoken unto you rising early and speaking, but ye have not hearkened.
The Lord hath kept an account of every year and day of his patience towards you, Luke 13. 7. These three years I came seeking fruit on this Fig-tree, and finde none, and Jer. 25. 3. These three and twenty years have I spoken unto you rising early and speaking, but ye have not hearkened.
Well, be you assured, that God hath both the glass of your time, and the vials of his wrath by him: and so much of his abused patience as runs out of one, so much of his incensed wrath runs into the other: there is a time when this Treaty of peace will end, when the Master of the house will rise up, and the doors be shut, Luke 13. 25. Then will you be left without hope and without Apology.
We read indeed of some poor and ineffectual pleas that will be made by some at the last day, so Matth. 7. 22. We have Prophesied in thy name, &c. These pleas will not avail, but as ⟨p. 58⟩