A39669:1231
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, You have here a mercy freely promised, viz. by God the Father from the beginning of the world, and often repeated 1and confirmed in several succeeding ages to the Fathers, in his Covenant transactions.
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This Mercy is Jesus Christ, of whom he speaks in this Prophecy: the same which he stiles an horn of salvation in the house of David, vers. 69.
This Mercy is Jesus Christ, of whom he speaks in this Prophecie: the same which he stiles an horn of salvation in the house of David, vers. 69.
The mercy of God in Scripture is put either for,
1. His free favour to the Creature, or, 2. The effects and fruits of that favour.