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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.
Propos. 5.
The Application of Christ to Souls by the regenerating work of the Spirit is that which makes the first internal difference and distinction 1among men.
- 1Propos. 5.
It is very true, that in respect of Gods fore-knowledge and purpose there was a distinction betwixt one man and another, before any, man had a being, one was taken, another left: and with respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one and another: he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them and not for the world; but all this while as to any relative change of state, or real change of temper, they are upon a level with the rest of the miserable world. The Elect themselves are by nature children of wrath even as others, Eph. 2. 3. and to the same purpose the Apostle tells. the Corinthians 1 Cor. 6. 11. (when he had given in that black bill describing the most Jewd profligate abominable wretches in the world, men whose practices did stink in the very nostrils of nature, and were able to make the more sober Heathens blush; after this he tells the Corinthians) And such were some of you, but ye are washed, &c. q. d. look, these were your Companions once: as they are, you lately were.