A39669:140
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. 3.
Such is the Importance and great concernment of the personal application of Christ to us by the Spirit, that whatsoever the father hath 1done in the contrivement, or the Son hath done in the accomplishment of our Redemption, is all inavailable and ineffectual to our Salvation without this.
- 1Propos. 3.
It is confessedly true, that Gods good pleasure appointing us from eternity to Salvation, is in its kind a most full and sufficient Impulsive cause of our Salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect. And Christs humiliation and sufferings are a most complete and sufficient meritorious cause of our Salvation, to which nothing can be added to make it more apt and able to procure our Salvation, than it already is: yet neither the one or other can actually save any Soul without the Spirits application of Christ to it: for where there are divers social causes or concauses necessary to produce one effect; there the effect cannot be produced until the last cause have wrought: thus it is here, The Father hath elected, and the Son hath redeemed; but until the Spirit (who is the last cause) have wrought his part also, we cannot be saved. For he comes in the Fathers and in the Sons name and authority to put the last hand to our Salvation work, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work of effectual vocation: hence the Apostle