A39669:853
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.
Next, I beseech you consider what there is in the offer 1of Christ to sinners, to induce you to receive him. Consider well to whom, and how Christ is offered in the Gospel.
Next, I beseech you confider what there is in the offer 1of Christ to sinners, to induce you to receive him. Consider well to whom, and how Christ is offered in the Gospel.
- 1Motive 2.
First, To whom he is offered: not to the fallen Angels but to you: they lye in chains of darkness, Jude 6. as he took not their nature, so he designs not their recovery; and therefore will have no treaty at all with them: but he is offered to you, creatures of an inferior rank and order by nature: nor is he offered to the damned, the treaty of peace is ended with them. Christ will never make them another tender of salvation: nor is he offered to millions of millions as good as you •ow living in the word: the sound of Christ and Salvation is not come to their ears; but he is offered to you by the special favour and bounty of heaven: and will you not receive him? O then how will the devils, the damned: ⟨p. 156⟩and the heathens upbraid your folly! and say, had we had one such tender of mercy of which you have had thousands, we would never have been now in this place of torments.
First, To whom he is offered: not to the fallen Angels but to you: they lye in chains of darkness, Jude 6. as he took not their nature, so he designs not their recovery; and therefore will have no treaty at all with them: but he is offered to you, creatures of an inferiour rank and order by nature: nor is he offered to the damned, the treaty of peace is ended with them. Christ will nevermake them another tender of salvation: nor is he offered to millions of millions as good as you ow living in the word: the sound of Christ and Salvation is not come to their ears; but he is offered to you by the special favour and bounty of heaven: and will you not receive him? O then how will the devils, the damned: