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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.
Secondly, The exhortation speaks to all those that are 1yet in a state of enmity and unreconciled to God unto this day. O that may words might prevail, and that you would now be entreated to be reconciled to God! The Ambassadors of peace are yet with you, the treaty is not yet ended, the Master of the house is not yet risen up, nor the door of mercy and hope finally shut: hitherto God hath waited to be gracious, O that the long-suffering of God might be your salvation: a day is hasting when God will treat with you no more, when a gulf shall be fixed betwixt him and you for ever, Luk. 13. 25. O what will you do when the season of mercy and all hopes of mercy shall end together! When God shall become inaccessible, inexorable and unreconcilable to you for evermore.
Secondly, The exhortation speaks to all those that are 1yet in a state of enmity and unreconciled to God unto this day. O that may words might prevail, and that you would now be intreated to be reconciled to God! The Ambassadors of peace are yet with you, the treaty is not yet ended, the Master of the house is not yet risen up, nor the door of mercy and hope finally shut: hitherto God hath waited to be gracious, O that the long-suffering of God might be your salvation: a day is hasting when God will treat with you no more, when a gulph shall be fixed betwixt him and you for ever, Luk. 13. 25. O what will you do when the season of mercy and all hopes of mercy shall end together! When God shall become inaccessible, inexorable and unreconcilable to you for evermore.
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O what wilt thou do when thou shalt find thy self shut up under eternal wrath: when thou shalt feel that misery thou art now warned of! is this the place where I must be, are these the torments I must endure, what for ever! Yea, for ever: will not God be satisfied with the sufferings of a thousand years? No, nor of Millions of years! Ah sinners, did you but clearly see the present and future misery of unreconciled ones, and what that wrath of the great and terrible God is which is coming as fast as the wings of time can bring it upon you; it would certainly drive you to Christ, or drive you out of your wits.