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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. 4.
The application of Christ with his saving benefits, is exactly of the same extent and latitude with the Fathers election, and the Sons intention 1in dying, and cannot possibly be extended to one soul farther.
- 1Propos. 4.
Whom he did predestinate, them he also called, Rom. 8. 30. And Acts 13. 48. as many as were ordained to eternal life, believed; 2 Tim. 1. 9. who hath saved and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works; but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world.
The Father, Son and Spirit (betwixt whom was the council of peace) work out their design in a perfect harmony and consent: as there was no jar in their council, so there can be none in the execution of it: those whom the Father before all time did choose; they, and they only are the persons whom the Son when the fullness of time for the execution of that decree was come, dyed for,