A39669:1344
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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First, He is altogether lovely in his person; a deity dwelling in flesh, Joh. 1. 14. The wonderful union and perfection of the divine and humane nature in Christ renders him an object of admiration and adoration to Angels and men, 1 Tim. 3. 16. God never presented to the world such a vision of glory before: and then considering how the humane nature of our Lord Jesus Christ is replenished with all the graces of the Spirit, so as never any of all the Saints was filled; O how lovely doth this render him! Joh. 3. 34. God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him: this makes him fairer than the children of men, grace being poured into his lips, Psal. 45. 2. If a small measure of grace in the Saints makes them such sweet and desirable companions, what must the riches and fullness of the Spirit of grace, filling Jesus Christ without measure, make him in the eyes of believers? O what a glory and a lustre must it stamp upon him!
First, He is altogether lovely in his person; a deity dwelling in flesh, Joh. 1. 14. The wonderful union and perfection of the divine and humane nature in Christ renders him an object of admiration and adoration to Angels and men,