A39669:1613
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, It supposes an estate of alienation and enmity: those only are accepted into favour that were out of favour; and indeed so stood the case with us, Ephes. 2. 12, 13. Ye were aliens and strangers, but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. So the Apostle Peter, in 1 Pet. 2. 10. Which in time past were not a people, but now are the people of God; which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. The fall made a fearful breach betwixt God and man. Sin like a thick cloud intercepted all the beams of divine favour from us: the satisfaction of Christ dissolves that cloud, Isai. 44. 22. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: This dark cloud thus dissolved, the face of God shines forth again with cheerful beams of favour and love upon all, who by faith are interested in Jesus Christ.
First, It supposes an estate of alienation and enmity: those only are accepted into favour that were out of favour; and indeed so stood the case with us, Ephes. 2. 12, 13. Ye were aliens and strangers, but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. So the Apostle Peter, in 1 Pet. 2. 10. Which in time past were not a people, but now are the people of God; which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. The fall made a fearful breach betwixt God and man. Sin like a thick cloud intercepted all the beams of divine favour from us: the satisfaction of Christ dissolves that cloud, Isai. 44. 22. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: This dark cloud thus dissolved, the face of God shines forth again with chearful beams of favour and love upon all, who by faith are interested in Jesus Christ.