A39669:456
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.
[Greek or Hebrew]—Can] or is able: he speaks of impotency to special and saving actions, such as believing in Christ is: no act that is saving can be done without the concurrence of special grace. Other acts that have a remote tendency to it, are performed by a more general concourse and common assistance, so men may come to the word, and attend what is spoken, remember, and consider what the word tells them; but as to believing or coming to Christ, that no man can do of himself, or by a general and common assistance. No man can
〈non-Latin alphabet〉—Can] or is able: he speaks of impotency to special and saving actions, such as believing in Christ is: no act that is saving can be done without the concurrence of special grace. Other acts that have a remote tendency to it, are performed by a more general concourse and common assistance, so men may come to the word, and attend what is spoken, remember, and consider what the word tells them; but as to believing or coming to Christ, that no man can do of himself, or by a general and common assistance. No man can
[Greek or Hebrew],—come unto me] (i. e.) believe in me unto Salvation. Coming to Christ, and believing in him are terms equipollent, and are indifferently used to express the nature of saving faith, as is plain from ver. 35. he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst: it notes the terms from which, and to which the soul moves, and the voluntariness of the motion, notwithstanding that divine power by which the will is drawn to Christ.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉,—come unto me] (i. e.) believe in me unto Salvation. Coming to Christ, and believing in him are terms aequipollent, and are indifferently used to express the nature of saving faith, as is plain from ver. 35. he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst: it notes the terms from which, and to which the soul moves, and the voluntariness of the motion, notwithstanding that divine power by which the will is drawn to Christ.