A39669:1647
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.
In which words we have two parts.
viz. 1. A Supposition. 2. A Concession.
First, A Supposition, if the Son therefore shall make you free, 1q. d. The womb of nature cast you forth into the world in a state of bondage, in that state you have lived all your days, servants to sin, slaves to your lusts, yet freedom is to be obtained: and this freedom is the prerogative belonging to the Son of God to bestow: if the Son shall make you free.
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Secondly, Christs Concession upon this supposition, then 1shall ye be free indeed, (i. e.) you shall have a real freedom, an excellent and everlasting freedom: no conceit only, as that which you now boast of is: if ever therefore you will be free men indeed, believe in me. Hence note,