A39669:798
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.
Inference 5.
Learn hence the impossibility of their salvation who neither know the nature, nor enjoy the means of saving faith.1
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My soul pities and mourns over the infidel world. Ah what will become of the millions of poor unbelievers! there is but one door of salvation, viz. Christ; and but one Key of faith to open that door: and as that key was never given to the heathen world, so it's laid aside, or taken away from the people by their cruel guides, all over the Popish world: were you among them you should hear nothing else pressed as necessary to your salvation but a blind implicit faith, to believe as the Church believes, that is, to believe they know not what.
My soul pities and mourns over the infidel world. Ah what will become of the millions of poor unbelievers! there is but one door of salvation, viz. Christ; and but one Key of faith to open that door: and as that key was never given to the heathen world, so it's laid aside, or taken away from the people by their cruel guides, all over the Popish world: were you among them you should hear nothing else prest as necessary to your salvation but a blind implicite faith, to believe as the Church believes, that is, to believe they know not what.