A39669:449
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.
OUR last discourse informed you of the usefulness & influence of the preaching of the Gospel in order to the Application of Christ to the souls of men: there must be (in Gods Ordinary way) the external ministerial offer of Christ, before men can have Union with him.
But yet all the preaching in the world can never effect this Union with Christ, in it self, and in its own virtue, except a supernatural and mighty power go forth with it for that end and purpose. Let Boanerges and Barnabas try their strength, let the Angels of heaven be the preachers; till God draw, the soul cannot come to Christ.
But yet all the preaching in the world can never effect this Union with Christ, in it self, and in its own vertue, except a supernatural and mighty power go forth with it for that end and purpose. Let Boanerges and Barnabas try their strength, let the Angels of heaven be the preachers; till God draw, the soul cannot come to Christ.
No saving benefit is to be had by Christ without Union with his person, no Union with his person without faith, no faith ordinarily wrought without the preaching of the Gospel by Christs Ambassadors, their preaching hath no saving efficacy without Gods drawings; as will evidently appear ⟨p. 69⟩by considering these words and the occasion of them.