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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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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, Eph. 2. 8. by grace are ye saved through ⟨p. 79⟩faith, and that not of your selves, it is the gift of God. To think of Christ is easy, but to come to Christ is (to nature) impossible: to send forth lazy and ineffectual wishes to Christ we may; but to bring Christ and the soul together requires the almighty power of God, Eph. 1. 19. The grace of faith by which we come to Christ, is as much the free gift of God, as Christ himself who is the object of faith, Phil. 1. 29. to you it is freely given to believe. And this will easily let it self into your understandings if you but consider the | Subject, | of this work of faith or coming to Christ. Act, and Enemies
First, If all the power of nature were imploy'd 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, Eph. 2. 8. by grace are ye saved through ⟨p. 79⟩faith, and that not of your selves, it is the gift of God. To think of Christ is easie, but to come to Christ is (to nature) impossible: to send forth lazy and ineffectual wishes to Christ we may; but to bring Christ and the soul together requires the almighty power of God, Eph. 1. 19. The grace of faith by which we come to Christ, is as much the free gift of God, as Christ himself who is the object of faith, Phil. 1. 29. to you it is freely given to believe. And this will easily let it self into your understandings if you but consider the | Subject, | of this work of faith or coming to Christ. Act, and Enemies