receiving the gospel offer

Here's a quote from John Flavel's book, The Method of Grace, which I was dipping into over the holiday (it's available here) . Here he's explaining how the Saviour is received in the same way as he is offered in the gospel (it's not the complete section - I've abbreviated it here).

1. The gospel offers Christ to us sincerely and really, and so the true believer receives and accepts him. ...

2. Christ is offered to us in the gospel entirely and undividedly, as clothed with all his offices, priestly, prophetical, and regal, as Christ Jesus the Lord, Acts 16:31; and so the true believer receives him. ...

3. Christ is offered to us in the gospel exclusively, as the only Saviour of sinners, with whose blood and intercession nothing is to be mixed; but the soul of a sinner is singly to rely and depend on him, and no other. Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 3:11. And so faith receives him ... Psalm 71:16.

4. The gospel offers Christ freely to sinners as the gift of God, John 4:10; Isaiah 55:1; Revelation 22:17; and so faith receives him. ...

5. The gospel offers Christ orderly to sinners, first his person, then his privileges. ... Romans 8:32. In the same order must our faith receive him. ...

6. Christ is advisedly offered in the gospel to sinners, as the result of God's eternal counsel, a project of grace upon which his heart and thoughts have been much set. Zechariah 6:13 ... And so the believer receives him, most deliberately weighing the matter in his most deep and serious thoughts; for this is a time of much solicitude and thoughtfulness. ...

There's a short biography of him here, which quotes one member of his congregation as saying that a person must have had "a very soft head, or a very hard heart, or both," if they could sit unaffected under his ministry. The book is worth a read anyway.