A39669:539
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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Infer. 6.
If none can come to Christ except the Father draw them, then surely none can be drawn from Christ except the Father leave 1them: that power which at first drew them to Christ, can secure and establish them in Christ to the end. Joh. 10. 29. my Father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand.
- 1Infer. 6.
When the power of God at first draws us out of our natural state to Christ, it finds us not only impotent, but obstinate, not only unable but unwilling to come; and yet this power of God prevails against all opposition: how much more is it able to preserve and secure us, when his fear is put into our inward parts, so that we dare •t depart, we have no will to depart from him? Well then, ⟨p. 89⟩if the world say I will ensnare thee; if the Devil say I will destroy thee, if the flesh say I will betray thee, yet thou art secure and safe as long as God hath said I will never leave thee nor for sake thee,