A39669:860
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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First, you put the greatest contempt and slight upon all the Attributes of God that it is possible for a creature to do: God hath made his justice, his mercy, his wisdom, and all his attributes to shine in their brightest glory in Christ: never was there such a display of the glory of God made to the world in any other way.
First, you put the greatest contempt and slight upon all the Attributes of God that it is possible for a creature to do: God hath made his justice, his mercy, his wisdome, and all his attributes to shine in their brightest glory in Christ: never was there such a display of the glory of God made to the world in any other way.
O then, what is it to reject and despise Jesus Christ, but to offer the greatest affront to the glory of God that it is possible for men to put upon him?
Secondly, you hereby frustrate and evacuate the very design and importance of the Gospel to your selves, you receive the grace of God in vain, 2 Cor. 6. 1. as good, yea, better had it been for you, that Christ had never come into the world, or if he had, that your lot had fallen in the dark places of ⟨p. 157⟩the earth where you had never heard his name: yea, good had it been for that man if he had never been born.