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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
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.
The Application of Christ to us is not only Comprehensive of our Justification, but of all those works of the Spirit which are known 1to us in Scripture by the names of regeneration, vocation, sanctification and conversion.
- 1Propos. 1.
Though all these terms have some small respective differences among themselves; yet they are all included in this general, the applying, and putting on of Christ, Rom. 13. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities infused by the Spirit into the Soul, which are the principles of all holy actions.
Vocation expresseth the terms from which, and to which the soul moves, when the Spirit works savingly upon it under the Gospel call.