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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
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Thirdly, The last thing to be opened is the manner of 1Gods performing this mercy to his people: which the Lord did, 1. Really and truly, as he had promised him. 2. Exactly agreeable to the promises and predictions of him.
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First, Really and truly; as he had promised, so he made good the promise, Act. 2. 36. Let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye crucified, both Lord and Christ.
The manifestation of Christ in the flesh was no phantasm or delusion, but a most evident and palpable truth, 1 Joh. 1. 1. That which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled. A truth so certain, that the assertors of it appealed to the very enemies of Christ for the certainty thereof, Act. 2. 22. yea, not only the sacred but profane writers witness to it: not only the Evangelists and Apostles, but even the Heathen writers of those times, both Roman and Jewish, as Suetonius, Tacitus, Plinius the younger, and Josephus the Jewish Antiquary do all acknowledge it.
The manifestation of Christ in the flesh was no phantasm or delusion, but a most evident and palpable truth, 1 Joh. 1. 1