A39669:1467
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.
DOCT.
That Christ Crucified is the Lord of Glory.1
- 1Doct.
Great and excellent is the glory of Jesus Christ; the Scriptures every where proclaim his glory. Yea, we may observe a notable Climax, or gradation in those Scriptures that speak of his glory. The Prophet Isaiah speaking of ⟨p. 278⟩him, calls him glorious, Isai. 4. 2. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious. John speaking of his glory rises a step higher, and ascribeth to him a glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father, John 1. 14. (i. e.) a glory meet for, and becoming the Son of God: proper to him and incommunicable to any other. The Apostle James rises yet higher, and doth not only call him glorious, or glorious as the only begotten of the Father: but the glory, Jam. 2. 1. glory in the abstract; my brethren (saith he) have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glory, with respect of persons: for the word Lord, which is in our translation, is a supplement: Christ is glory it self: yea, the glory emphatically so styled; the glory of Heaven; the glory of Zion; the glory of our souls for ever. The Author to the Hebrews goes yet higher, and calls him not simply the glory, but the brightness of his Fathers glory,