A39669:1502
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 Jesus Christ is the only Consolation of Believers, and of none besides them.1
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So speaks the Apostle, Phil. 3. 3. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Those that worship God in the Spirit are sincere Believers, to such sincere Believers Christ is consolation, our rejoicing is in Christ Jesus: and they have no consolation in any thing beside him, nothing in the world can give them comfort without Christ, we have no confidence in the flesh. The Gospel is glad tidings of great joy, but that which makes it to be so, is Jesus Christ whom it imports and reveals to us, Luke 2. 10, 11. In the opening of this comfortable point, four things must be spoken to, for the right stating the method of our Discourse, viz.
So speaks the Apostle, Phil. 3. 3. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoyce in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Those that worship God in the Spirit are sincere Believers, to such sincere Believers Christ is consolation, our rejoycing is in Christ Jesus: and they have no consolation in any thing beside him, nothing in the world can give them comfort without Christ, we have no confidence in the flesh. The Gospel is glad tidings of great joy, but that which makes it to be so, is Jesus Christ whom it imports and reveals to us,