A39669:1473
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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Inference 1.
How wonderful was the love of Christ the Lord of glory, to be so abased and humbled as he was for us, vile, and sinful 1dust! 'Tis astonishing to conceive that ever Jesus Christ should strip himself out of his Robes of Glory, to clothe himself with the thread-bare tatters of our flesh. Oh what a stoop did he make in his incarnation for us! If the most magnificent Monarch upon earth, had been degraded into a Toad: if the Sun in the Heavens had been turned into a wandering Atom: if the most glorious Angel in Heaven, had been transformed into a silly Fly; it had been nothing to the abasement of the Lord of Glory. This act is every where celebrated in Scripture, as the great mystery, the astonishing wonder of the whole world, 2 Tim. 3. 16. Phil. 2. 8. Rom. 8. 3. The Lord of glory looked not like himself, when he came in the habit of a man, Isai. 53. 3. We hid as it were our faces from him: nay, rather like a worm, than a man, Psal. 22. 6. A reproach of men, and despised of the people. The Birds of the air, and Beasts of the earth were here provided of better accommodations than the Lord of glory, Mat. 8. 20. Oh stupendous abasement! Oh love unspeakable! Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich,