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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.
First, That Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly together: 'tis Christ himself is made all this unto us: we can have no saving benefit separate and apart from the person of Christ: many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: yea, we must accept his person first and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage Covenant, so 'tis here.
First, That Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly together: 'tis Christ himself is made all this unto us: we can have no saving benefit separate and apart from the person of Christ: many would willingly receive his priviledges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: yea, we must accept his person first and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage Covenant, so 'tis here.
Secondly, That Christ with his benefits must be personally and particularly applied to us before we can receive any actual saving privilege by him: he must be [made unto us] (i. e.) particularly applied to us: as a sum of money becomes or is made the ransom and liberty of a Captive when it is not only promised ⟨p. 5⟩but paid down in his name, and legally applied for that use and end: when Christ dyed, the ransom was prepared, the sum laid down; but yet the elect continue still in sin and misery notwithstanding, till by effectual calling it be actually applied to their persons, and then they are made free, Rom. 5. 10, 11. reconciled by Christs death by whom we have now received the atonement.
Secondly, That Christ with his benefits must be personally and particularly applied to us before we can receive any actual saving priviledge by him: he must be [made unto us] (i. e.) particularly applied to us: as a sum of money becomes or is made the ransome and liberty of a Captive when it is not only promised ⟨p. 5⟩