A39669:1595
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.
The Seventeenth SERMON.1
- 1Sermon 17.
EPHES. 1. 6. 1To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
- 1Text. Opening the eighth motive to come to Christ, drawn from the second benefit purchased by Christ for Believers.
IN our last discourse we opened to you the blessed privilege of remission of sin from the following verse; in this verse lies another glorious privilege, viz. the acceptation that Believers have with God through Jesus Christ: both which comprise (as the two main branches) our justification before God. In the words read (to omit many things that might be profitably observed from the method and dependence of the Apostles discourse) three particulars are observable,
IN our last discourse we opened to you the blessed priviledge of remission of sin from the following verse; in this verse lies another glorious priviledge, viz. the acceptation that Believers have with God through Jesus Christ: both which comprise (as the two main branches) our justification before God. In the words read (to omit many things that might be profitably observed from the method and dependance of the Apostles discourse) three particulars are observable,