A39669:458
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]—Except my Father] not excluding the other two persons, for every work of God relating to the Creatures is common to all the three persons, nor only to note that the Father is the first in order of working: but the reason is hinted in the next words,
〈non-Latin alphabet〉—Except my Father] not excluding the other two persons, for every work of God relating to the Creatures is common to all the three persons, nor only to note that the Father is the first in order of working: but the reason is hinted in the next words,
[Greek or Hebrew]—who hath sent me] God having entered into Covenant with the son and sent him, stands obliged by that paction to bring the promised seed to him, and that he doth by drawing them to Christ by faith: so the next words tell us the Father doth
〈non-Latin alphabet〉—who hath sent me] God having entred into Covenant with the son and sent him, stands obliged by that paction to bring the promised seed to him, and that he doth by drawing them to Christ by faith: so the next words tell us the Father doth
[Greek or Hebrew]—draw him] that is powerfully and effectually incline his will to come to Christ: not by a violent coaction, 1but by a benevolent bending of the will which was averse; and as it is not in the way of force and compulsion, so neither is it by a simple moral suasion, by the bare proposal of an object to the will, and so leaving the sinner to his own election, but it is such a persuasion as hath a mighty overcoming efficacy accompanying it: of which more anon.