A39669:1463
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.
Fourthly, Therefore this excellent wisdom which he preached, far transcended all the natural wisdom of this world: yea, the most raised and improved understandings of those that were most renowned, and admired in that age for wisdom, vers. 8. Which none of the Princes of this world knew.
In which words we have, 1. A Negative Proposition. 2. The proof of the Proposition.
First, A Negative Proposition, none of the Princes of this 1world knew that Spiritual Wisdom which he taught. By Princes of this world, or rather principes seculi, the Princes of that age, he means, as Camero well notes, the learned Rabbis, Scribes and Pharisees, renowned for wisdom and learning among them, and honoured upon that account, as so many Princes: but he adds a diminutive term, which darkens all their glory. They are but the Princes of this world, utterly unacquainted with the wisdom of the other world. To which he adds,
First, A Negative Proposition, none of the Princes of this 1world knew that Spiritual Wisdom which he taught. By Princes of this world, or rather principes seculi, the Princes of that age, he means, as Camero well notes, the learned Rabbies, Scribes and Pharisees, renowned for wisdom and learning among them, and honoured upon that account, as so many Princes: but he adds a diminutive term, which darkens all their glory. They are but the Princes of this world, utterly unacquainted with the wisdom of the other world. To which he adds,
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