A39669:1661
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
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Fifthly, Christ hath not freed Believers in this world from the rods of affliction. God in giving us our liberty doth not abridge his own liberty, Psal. 89. 32. all the Children of ⟨p. 326⟩God are made free, yet what Son is there whom the Father chasteneth not? Heb. 12. 8. Exemption from affliction is so far from being the mark of a Freeman, that the Apostle there makes it the mark of a slave. Bastards, not Sons want the discipline and blessing of the Rod: to be freed from affliction would be no benefit to Believers, who receive so many benefits by affliction.
Fifthly, Christ hath not freed Believers in this world from the rods of affliction. God in giving us our liberty doth not abridge his own liberty, Psal. 89. 32. all the Children of ⟨p. 326⟩God are made free, yet what Son is there whom the Father chastneth not? Heb. 12. 8. Exemption from affliction is so far from being the mark of a Freeman, that the Apostle there makes it the mark of a slave. Bastards, not Sons want the discipline and blessing of the Rod: to be freed from affliction would be no benefit to Believers, who receive so many benefits by affliction.
Sixthly, No Believer is freed by Christ from the stroke of death, though they are all freed from the sting of death, Rom. 8. 10. The bodies of Believers are under the same Law of mortality with other men, Heb. 9. 27