A39669:1616
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.
Secondly, In the next place I must show you how it appears 1that Believers are thus ingratiated or brought into the special favour of God by Jesus Christ. And this will be evidenced divers ways.
Secondly, In the next place I must shew you how it appears 1that Believers are thus ingratiated or brought into the special favour of God by Jesus Christ. And this will be evidenced divers ways.
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First, By the Titles of love and endearedness with which the Lord graceth and honoureth Believers, who are sometimes called the household of God, Ephes. 2. 19. the friends of God, Jam. 2. 23. the dear Children of God, Ephes. 5. 1. the peculiar people of God, 1 Pet. 2. 9. A Crown of Glory, and a Royal Diadem in the hand of their God, Isai. 62. 3. the objects of his delight and pleasure, Psal. 147. 10, 11. Oh what terms of endearedness doth God use towards his people! ⟨p. 313⟩Doth not all this speak them to be in special favour with him? Which of all these alone doth not signify a person highly in favour with God?