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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.
Thirdly, In the last place, I am to evince the impossibility of coming to Christ without the Fathers drawings: and this 1will evidently appear upon the consideration of these two particulars.
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First, The difficulty of this work is above all the power of nature to overcome.
Secondly, That little power and ability that nature hath, it will never employ to such a purpose as this, till the drawing power of God be upon the will of a sinner.
Secondly, That little power and abili•y that nature hath, it will never employ to such a purpose as this, till the drawing power of God be upon the will of a sinner.
First, If all the power of nature were employed in this design, yet such are the difficulties of this work, that it surmounts all the abilities of nature: this the Scripture roundly and plainly affirms,