A39669:1275
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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Fourthly, His Stock or Tribe was foretold to be Judah, Gen. 49. 10. and it is evident (saith the Apostle) that our Lord sprang out of Judah, Heb. 7. 14.
Fifthly, His Harbinger or forerunner was foretold, Mal. 4. 5, 6. fulfilled in John the Baptist, Luk. 1. 16, 17.
Sixthly, The obscurity and meanness of his birth was predicted, Isai. 53. 2. Zech. 9. 9. to which the event answered, Luk. 2. 12.