A39669:1247
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.
Secondly, Christ is the mercy, because all the mercy of 1God to sinners is dispensed and conveyed through Christ to them, Joh. 1. 16. Col. 2. 3. Eph. 4. 7. Christ is the medium of all Divine communications: the Channel of Grace; through him is both the decursus & recursus gratiarum; the flows of mercy from God to us, and the returns of praise from us to God: fond and vain therefore are all the expectations of mercy out of Christ: no drop of saving mercy runs beside this Channel.
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Thirdly, Christ is the mercy, because all inferior mercies derive both their nature, value, sweetness and duration from 1Christ, the fountain mercy of all other mercies.
Thirdly, Christ is the mercy, because all inferiour mercies derive both their nature, value, sweetness and duration from 1Christ, the fountain mercy of all other mercies.
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First, they derive their nature from Christ: for out of him those things which men call mercies, are rather traps and snares, than mercies to them,