A39669:1324
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.
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.
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Secondly, The predicate, or what she affirmeth or saith of 1him, viz. that he is a lovely one, machamaddim, desires, according to the import of the original which signifies earnestly 2to desire, covet or long for that which is most pleasant, grateful, delectable and amiable; the original word is both in the abstract, and of the plural number, which speaks Christ to be the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the Rivers be gathered into the Ocean, which is the congregation or meeting place of all the waters in the world: so Christ is that Ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet.
Secondly, The predicate, or what she affirmeth or saith of 1him, viz. that he is a lovely one, machamaddim, desires, according to the import of the original which signifies earnestly