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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
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.
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, John 17. 6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them me: and ver. 19. for their sakes I sanctify my self: (i. e.) consecrate, devote, or set my self apart for a sacrifice for them. And those for whom Christ died, are the persons to whom the Spirit effectually applies the benefits and purchases of his blood: […] comes▪ in the name of the Father and Son; but the world cannot receive him, for it neither sees, nor knows him, Joh. 14. 17. they that are not of Christs sheep, believe not, Joh. 10. 26.
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 jarr in their council, so there can be none in the execution of it: those whom the Father before all time did chuse; they, and they only are the persons whom the Son when the fulness of time for the execution of that decree was come, dyed for,