A39669:1498
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.
His practice was heavenly and holy, he was a just and devout man: the principle from which his righteousness and holiness did flow, was his faith in Christ; he waited for the consolation of Israel. In which words by way of Periphrasis we have,
1. A description of Christ, the Consolation of Israel. 2. The description of a Believer, one that waiteth for Christ.
First. That the Consolation of Israel is a phrase descriptive 1of Jesus Christ is beyond all doubt, if you consult vers. 26. where he (i. e.) Simeon is satisfied by receiving Christ into his arms, the Consolation for which he had so long waited.
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Secondly, And that waiting for Christ is a phrase describing 1the Believers of those times, that preceded the incarnation of Christ, is past doubt; they all waited for that blessed day: but it was Simeons lot to fall just upon that happy nick of time, wherein the Prophecies and Promises of his incarnation were fulfilled. Simeon and others that waited with him, were sensible that the time of the Promise was come, which could not but raise (as indeed it did) a general expectation of him,