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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.
First, Now remission of sin is the gracious act of God, in and through Christ, discharging a believing sinner from all the guilt and punishment of his sin, both temporal and eternal.
'Tis the act of God, he is the author of remission, none can forgive sins but God only, Mark 2. 7. against him only (i. e.) principally and essentially the offence is committed, Psal. 51. 4. To his Judgement guilt binds over the soul, and who can remit the debt, but the Creditor, Mat. 6. 12.
'Tis an act of God discharging the sinner: it is Gods loosing of one that stood bound, the cancelling of his bond, or obligation: called therefore remission, or releasing in the Text: the blotting out of our iniquities, or the removing our sins from us, as it's called in other Scriptures, see Psal. 103. 11. Mica. 7. 18, 19.
It is a gracious act of God, the effect of pure grace, done for his own name sake,