A39669:537
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. 5.
Doth all success and efficacy depend upon the Fathers drawings? 1Let none then despair of their unregenerate and carnal relations, over whose obstinacy they do, and have cause to mourn.
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What if they have lain as many years under the preaching of the Gospel as that poor man did at the pool of Bethesda, and hitherto to no purpose? a time may come at last (as it did for him) when the Spirit of God may move upon ⟨p. 88⟩the waters, I mean, put a quickening and converting power into the means, and then the desire of your souls for them shall be fulfilled.
What if they have layen as many years under the preaching of the Gospel as that poor man did at the pool of Bethesda, and hitherto to no purpose? a time may come at last (as it did for him) when the Spirit of God may move upon ⟨p. 88⟩the waters, I mean, put a quickening and converting power into the means, and then the desire of your souls for them shall be fulfill'd.