A39669:112
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, Their privileges are enumerated, namely, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, mercies of 1inestimable value in themselves; and such as respect a fourfold ⟨p. 3⟩misery lying upon sinful man• viz. Ignorance, guilt▪ pollution, and the whole […] of miserable consequences and effects let in upon the nature of men, yea the best and holiest of men by sin.
First, Their priviledges are enumerated, namely, wisdome, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, mercies of 1inestimable value in themselves; and such as respect a fourfold ⟨p. 3⟩misery lying upon sinful man• viz. Ignorance, guilt▪ pollution, and the whole 〈…〉 of miserable consequences and effects let in upon the nature of men, yea the best and holiest of men by sin.
- 11. Quatuor Christo •logia hic adscribit, quae totam ejus virtutem, & quicquid ab ipso bonorum recipimus complectuntur. Calv. in loc.
Lapsed man is not only in deep misery, but grossly ignorant both that he is so, and how to recover himself from it: Sin hath left him at once senseless of his state, and at a perfect loss about the true remedy.