A39669:137
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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Propos. 2.
The Application of Christ to the souls of men is that great project 1and design of God in this world, for the accomplishment whereof all the Ordinances and all the officers of the Gospel are appointed and continued in the world.
- 1Propos. 2.
This the Gospel expressly declared to be its direct and great end, and the great business of all its officers, Eph. 4. 11, 12. And he gave some Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Evangelists, and some pastors and teachers: till we all come in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God; to a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, (i. e.) the great aim and scope of all Christs Ordinances and officers is to bring men into Union with Christ, and so build them up to perfection in him: or to unite them to, and confirm them in Christ: and when it shall have finished this design, then shall the whole frame of Gospel Ordinances be taken down, and all its officers disbanded. The Kingdom (i. e. this present economy, manner and form of Government) shall be delivered up, 1 Cor. 15. 24. what are Ministers, but the Bridegrooms friends, Ambassadors for God to beseech men to be reconciled? when therefore all the elect are brought home in a reconciled state to Christ, when the marriage of the Lamb is come, our work and office expire together.