A39669:1665
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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Secondly, All Believers are freed from the guilt of sin, it may trouble, but it cannot condemn them, Rom. 8. 33. The hand writing which was against us is cancelled by Christ, nailed to his Cross, Colos. 2. 14. When the seal and handwriting is torn off from the Bond, the Debtor is made free ⟨p. 327⟩thereby: Believers are totally freed, Acts 13. 39. Justified from all things: and finally freed, John 5. 24. They shall never come into condemnation. O blessed freedom! How sweet is it to lie down in our beds, yea in our graves; when guilt shall neither be our Bed fellow, nor Grave fellow!
Thirdly, Christ frees all Believers from the dominion as well as the guilt of sin. Sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the Law, but under Grace, Rom. 6. 14. The law of the spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death, Rom. 8. 2. Now who can estimate such a liberty as this? What slavery, what an intolerable drudgery is the service of divers lusts from all which Believers are freed by Christ: not from the residence but from the reign of sin. 'Tis with sin in Believers as it was with those beasts mentioned Dan. 7. 12. They had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.