A39669:1271
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, As to his birth, the time, place, and manner thereof was foretold to the Fathers, and exactly performed to a tittle.
First, The time prefixed more generally in Jacobs Prophecy, Gen. 44. 10. when the Sceptre should depart from Judah, as indeed it did in Herod the Idumean: more particularly in Daniel seventy weeks from the decree of Darius, Dan. 9. 24. answering exactly to the time of his birth: so cogent and full a proof, that Porphyry, the great enemy of Christians had no other evasion, but that this Prophecy was devised after the event; which yet the Jews (as bitter enemies to Christ as himself) will by no means allow to be true: and Lastly, The time of his birth was exactly pointed at in Haggai's Prophecy, Hag. 2. 7, 9. compared with Mal. 3. 1. he must come whilst the second Temple stood: at that time was a general expectation of him, Joh. 1. 19. and at that very time he came, Luke 2. 38.
First, The time prefixed more generally in Jacobs Phophecie, Gen. 44. 10. when the Scepter should depart from Judah, as indeed it did in Herod the Idumean: more particularly in Daniel seventy weeks from the decree of Darius, Dan. 9. 24. answering exactly to the time of his birth: so cogent and full a proof, that Porphyry, the great enemy of Christians had no other evasion, but that this Prophecie was devised after the event; which yet the Jews (as bitter enemies to Christ as himself) will by no means allow to be true: and Lastly, The time of his birth was exactly pointed at in Haggai's Prophecie,