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 ...
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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 ...
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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
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London :: Printed by M. White, for Francis Tyton ...,
1681.
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Presbyterian Church -- Sermons.
Salvation.
Conversion.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39669.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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Inference 3.
How sore and terrible a judgement lies upon the souls of thosemen to whom no word of God is made powerful enough to convince and awaken them! Yet so stands the case with thousands who constantly sit under the preaching of the word: many Ar∣rows are shot at their Consciences, but none goes home to the mark, all fall short of the end: the Commandment hath come unto them many thousand times, by way of promulgati∣on and ministerial inculcation, but never yet came home to their souls by the spirits effectual application. Oh friends, you have often heard the voice of man, but you never yet heard
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the voice of God: your understandings have been instructed, but your Consciences to this day were never throughly con∣vinced; We have mourned unto you, but ye have not lamented, Mat. 11. 17. Who hath believed our report, and unto whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Alas, we have laboured in vain, we have spent our strength for nought, our word returns unto us empty; but O what a stupendious judgement is here! Heb. 6. 7, 8. The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft up∣on it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dres∣sed, receiveth blessing from God; but that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. What a sore judgement and sign of Gods displea∣sure would you account it, if your fields were cursed; if you should manure, dress, plough and sow them; but never reap the fruit of your labour, the increase being still blasted? And yet this were nothing compared with the blasting of the word to your souls: that which is a savour of life unto life unto some, becomes the savour of death unto death, to others, 2 Cor. 2. 16. The Lord affect our hearts with the terrible stroaks of God upon the souls of men.