A39669:1154
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.
DOCT.
That the Lord Jesus Christ is the only Physician for sick souls.
The world is a great Hospital full of sick and dying souls, 1all wounded by one and the same mortal weapon, sin. Some are senseless of their misery, feel not their pains, value not a Physician: others are full of sense, as well as danger; mourn under the apprehension of their condition, and sadly bewail it. The merciful God hath, in his abundant compassion to the perishing world, sent a Physician from Heaven, and given him his Orders under the Great Seal of Heaven for his Office, Isai. 61. 1, 2. which he opened and read in the audience of the people, Luke 4. 18. The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek, he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, &c. He is the tree of life, whose leaves are for the healing of the Nations: he is Jehovah Rophe, the Lord that healeth us; and that as he is Jehovah Tzidkenu, the Lord our righteousness. The Brazen Serpent that healed the Israelites in the Wilderness, was an excellent Type of our Great Physician Christ, and is expressly applied to him, John 3. 14. he rejects none that come, and heals all whom he undertakes: but more particularly I will,