A39669:1346
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.
Secondly, He is altogether lovely in his Offices: for let us but consider the suitableness, fullness, and comfortableness of them.
Secondly, He is altogether lovely in his Offices: for let us but consider the suitableness, fulness, and comfortableness of them.
First, The suitableness of the Offices of Christ to the miseries and wants of men, and we cannot but adore the infinite wisdom of God in his investiture with them: we are by nature blind and ignorant, at best but groping in the dim light of nature after God: Acts 17. 27. Jesus Christ is a light to lighten the Gentiles, Isai. 49. 6. When this great Prophet came into the world, then did the day-spring from on high visit us, Luk. 1. 78. The state of nature is a state of alienation and enmity to God; Christ comes into the world an atoning sacrifice, making peace by the blood of his Cross, Col. 1. 20. All the world, by nature, are in bondage and captivity to Satan, a lamentable thraldom: Christs comes with a kingly power to rescue sinners, as a prey, from the mouth of the terrible one.
First, The suitableness of the Offices of Christ to the miseries and wants of men, and we cannot but adore the infinite wisdom of God in his investiture with them: we are by nature blind and ignorant, at best but groping in the dim light of nature after God: Acts 17. 27. Jesus Christ is a light to lighten the Gentiles, Isai. 49. 6. When this great Prophet came into the world, then did the day-spring from on high visit us,