A39669:134
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.
Vocation expresseth the terms from which, and to which the soul moves, when the Spirit works savingly upon it under the Gospel call.
Sanctification notes that holy dedication of heart and life to God: our becoming the Temples of the living God, separate from all profane, sinful practices, to the Lords only use and service.
Sanctification notes that holy dedication of heart and life to God: our becoming the Temples of the living God, separate from all prophane, sinful practices, to the Lords only use and service.
Conversion denotes the great change it self which the Spirit causeth upon the soul, turning it by a sweet irresistible efficacy from the power of Sin and Satan to God in Christ.
Now all these are imported in, and done by the Application of Christ to our souls: for when once the efficacy of Christs ⟨p. 7⟩death and the virtue of his resurrection come to take place upon the heart of any man, he cannot but turn from Sin to God, and become a new creature, living and acting by new principles and rules. So the Apostle observes