A39669:1132
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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Inference 3.
What cause have we all to admire the goodness of God, in providing for us a Christ, in whom we may find rest to our 1souls!
- 1Inference 3.
How hath the Lord filled and furnished Jesus Christ with all that is suitable to a Believers wants! Doth the guilt of sin terrify his Conscience? Lo, in him is perfect righteousness to remove that guilt, so that it shall neither be imputed to his person, nor reflected by his Conscience in the way of condemnation as it was before. In him also is a Fountain opened for washing and for cleansing the filth of sin from our souls: in him is the fullness both of Merit, and of Spirit, two sweet Springs of Peace to the souls of men: well might the Apostle say, Christ the wisdom of God, 1 Cor. 1. 30. and well might the Church say, he is altogether lovely, Cant 5. 16. Had not God provided Jesus Christ for us, we had never known one hours rest to all eternity.
How hath the Lord filled and furnished Jesus Christ with all that is suitable to a Believers wants! Doth the guilt of sin terrifie his Conscience? Lo, in him is perfect righteousness to remove that guilt, so that it shall neither be imputed to his person, nor reflected by his Conscience in the way of condemnation as it was before. In him also is a Fountain opened for washing and for cleansing the filth of sin from our souls: in him is the fulness both of Merit, and of Spirit, two sweet Springs of Peace to the souls of men: well might the Apostle say, Christ the wisdom of God,