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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
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Hence it also follows, That the world owes better entertainment 1than it gives to the Ministers of Christ. Christs Ambassadors deserve a better welcome than they find among men.
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Your respects to them is founded upon their office and employment for you, Heb. 13. 17. and 1 Thes. 5. 12. They watch for your souls, dare any of you watch for their ruin? They bring glad tidings, shall they return with sad tidings to him that sent them? They publish peace, shall they be rewarded with trouble? O ungrateful world! We read in Eph. 6. 20. of an Ambassador in bonds, and he no ordinary one neither; we read also a strange Challenge made by another at his own death, Acts 7. 52. Which of all the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which showed before the coming of the Just one. Some that break the bread of life to you might want bread to eat for any regard you have to them. The office of the Ministry speaks the abundant love of God to you, your Contempt and abuse of it speaks the abundant stupidity or malignity of your hearts towards God: what a sad protestation