A39669:1393
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, That God the Father hath appointed him as a common remedy, for the sins and miseries of his people in all parts and quarters of the world. So in the Covenant of Redemption betwixt the Father and the Son, the Lord expresseth himself, Isai. 49. 6. and he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the Tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth. Suitable whereunto is that Prophecy, Isai. 52. 15. He shall sprinkle many Nations. If God had not appointed him for, he could not be desired by all Nations.
First, That God the Father hath appointed him as a common remedy, for the sins and miseries of his people in all parts and quarters of the world. So in the Covenant of Redemption betwixt the Father and the Son, the Lord expresseth himself, Isai. 49. 6. and he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the Tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou maist be my salvation to the end of the earth. Suitable whereunto is that Prophecie, Isai. 52. 15. He shall sprinkle many Nations. If God had not appointed him for, he could not be desired by all Nations.
And indeed herein the grace of God doth admirably shine forth in the freeness of it, that even the most barbarous Nations are not excluded from the benefit of redemption by Christ. This is that the Apostle admires, that Christ should be preached to the Gentiles, 1 Tim. 3. 16. A people that seemed to be lost in the darkness of Idolatry; yet even for them Christ was given by the Father. Ask of me (saith he) and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.