A39669:1653
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.
Believers are the Children of the New Covenant, the denizens of Jerusalem which are above, which is free and the mother of them all, Gal. 4. 26. the glorious liberty, viz. that which is spiritual and eternal, is the liberty of the Children of God, Rom. 8. 21. Christ, and none but Christ delivers his people out of the hands of their enemies, Luk. 1. 74.
Believers are the Children of the New Covenant, the denizons of Jerusalem which are above, which is free and the mother of them all, Gal. 4. 26. the glorious liberty, viz. that which is spiritual and eternal, is the liberty of the Children of God, Rom. 8. 21. Christ, and none but Christ delivers his people out of the hands of their enemies, Luk. 1. 74.
In the Doctrinal part of this point, I must show you
In the Doctrinal part of this point, I must shew you
First, What Believers are not freed from by Jesus Christ in this world. Secondly, What that bondage is from which every Believer is freed by Christ. Thirdly, What kind of freedom that is which comes in upon believing. Fourthly, Open the excellency of this state of spiritual freedom.