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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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Fourthly, The drawings of God are very effectual: there is indeed a Common and ineffectual work upon hypocrites and Apostates, called in Scripture a morning cloud, an early dew, Hosea 6. 4. these may believe for a time, and fall away at last, Luke 8. 13. their wills may be half won, they may be drawn half way to Christ, and return again. So it was with Agrippa, Acts 26. 28. [Greek or Hebrew], within a very little 1thou persuadest me to be a Christian: but in Gods elected ones it is effectual: their wills are not only almost, but altogether persuaded to embrace Christ, and quit the ways of sin, how pleasant, gainful and dear soever they have been to them: the Lord not only draws, but draws home those souls to Christ, Joh. 6. 37. all that the Father hath given me, shall come to me.
Fourthly, The drawings of God are very effectual: there is indeed a Common and ineffectual work upon hypocrites and Apostates, call'd in Scripture a morning cloud, an early dew, Hosea 6. 4. these may believe for a time, and fall away at last, Luke 8. 13. their wills may be half won, they may be drawn half way to Christ, and return again. So it was with Agrippa, Acts 26. 28. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, within a very little 1thou perswadest me to be a Christian: but in Gods elected ones it is effectual: their wills are not only almost, but altogether perswaded to embrace Christ, and quit the ways of sin, how pleasant, gainful and dear soever they have been to them: the Lord not only draws, but draws home those souls to Christ,