A39669:541
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. 7.
Let this engage you to a constant attendance upon the ordinances 1of God in which this drawing power of God is sometimes put forth upon the hearts of men.
- 1Infer. 7.
Beloved, there are certain seasons in which the Lord comes nigh to men in the Ordinances and Duties of his worship, and we know not at what time the Lord cometh forth by his Spirit upon this design: he many times comes in an hour when we look not for him, when we think not of him, I am found of them that sought me not, Isa. 65. 1. it's good therefore to be found in the way of the Spirit: had that poor man that lay so long at the pool of Bethesda reasoned thus with himself, so long have I lain here in vain expecting a cure, it's to no purpose to wait longer, and so had been absent at that very time when the Angel came down, he had in all likelihood carried his disease to the grave with him.
Beloved, there are certain seasons in which the Lord comes nigh to men in the Ordinances and Duties of his worship, and we know not at what time the Lord cometh forth by his Spirit upon this design: he many times comes in an hour when we look not for him, when we think not of him, I am found of them that sought me not,