A39669:524
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.
Infer. 3.
Learn hence the true ground and reason of those strange, amazing, and supernatural effects that you behold and so admire in the 1world, as often as you see sinners for saking their pleasant profitable corruptions and companions, and embracing the ways of Christ, godliness, and mortification.
- 1Infer. 3.
It is said 1 Pet. 4. 4. they think it strange that you run not with them into the same excess of riot: the word is [Greek or Hebrew], they stand at a gaze as the hen that hath hatched Partridge eggs doth, when she sees them take the wing and fly away from her.
It is said 1 Pet. 4. 4. they think it strange that you run not with them into the same excess of riot: the word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, they stand at a gaze as the hen that hath hatcht Patridge eggs doth, when she sees them take the wing and flye away from her.