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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.
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.
Thirdly, hereby a man murders his own soul. I said therefore unto you that you shall dye in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall dye in your sins, Joh. 8. 24. unbelief is self-murder: you are guilty of the blood of your own souls: life and salvation was offered you, and you rejected it: yea,
Thirdly, hereby a man murthers his own soul. I said therefore unto you that you shall dye in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall dye in your sins, Joh. 8. 24. unbelief is selfmurther: you are guilty of the blood of your own souls: life and salvation was offered you, and you rejected it: yea,
Fourthly, The refusing of Christ by unbelief will aggravate your damnation, above all others that perish in ignorance of Christ. O 'twill be more tolerable for heathens than for you: the greatest measures of wrath are reserved to punish the worst of sinners, and among sinners none will be found worse than unbelievers.