A39669:1562
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.
'Tis the gracious act of God in and through Christ: the satisfaction of Christ is the procuring cause of our remission, and so God declares himself just in the remission of our sin, Rom. 3, 25. Gracious is the Lord and righteous, Psal. 116. 5. Justice and mercy meet here, and embrace each other: in whom (saith the Text) we have remission: no other price could purchase this privilege, Micah 6. 6, 7. not rivers of Oil, or humane Blood.
'Tis the gracious act of God in and through Christ: the satisfaction of Christ is the procuring cause of our remission, and so God declares himself just in the remission of our sin, Rom. 3, 25. Gracious is the Lord and righteous, Psal. 116. 5. Justice and mercy meet here, and embrace each other: in whom (saith the Text) we have remission: no other price could purchase this priviledge, Micah 6. 6, 7. not rivers of Oyl, or humane Blood.
And this gracious act of God discharges the pardoned soul both from guilt and punishment: guilt is nothing else but the force and power that is in sin, to oblige the sinner to undergo the penalty due to sin. Therefore sinners are said to be guilty of Hell-fire, Mat. 5. 22. Guilty of eternal judgement, Mark 3. 29. to be under the judgement of God, Rom. 3. 19. Remission takes away both guilt and punishment together, it takes away all guilt,