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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.
AT the ninth verse of this Chapter you have a query propounded to the Spouse, by the Daughters of Jerusalem, What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved? To this question the Spouse returns her answer in the following verses, wherein she asserts his excellency in general, vers. 10. He is the chiefest among ten thousands: confirms that general assertion by an enumeration of his particular excellencies to vers. 16. where she closes up her Character and Encomium of her Beloved, with an elegant Epiphonema, in the words that I have read, Yea, he is altogether lovely.
The words, you see, are an affirmative proposition, setting forth the transcendent loveliness of the Lord Jesus Christ, and naturally resolve themselves into three parts, viz.
1. The Subject. 2. The Predicate. 3. The manner of Predication.
First, The subject, He, viz. the Lord Jesus Christ, after 1whom she had been seeking: for whom she was sick of love: concerning whom these Daughters of Jerusalem had enquired: whom she had endeavoured so graphically to describe in his particular excellencies. This is the great and excellent Subject of whom she here speaks.