A39669:1671
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 frees Believers from the poisonous sting and hurt of death: kill us it can, but hurt us it cannot, 1 Cor. 15. 55, 56. O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law: but thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. If there be no hurt, there should be no horror in death: 'tis guilt that arms death both with its hurting and terrifying power. To dye in our sins, John 8. 24. To have our bones full of the sins of our youth, which shall lye down with us in the dust, Job 20. 11. To have death, like a Dragon, pulling a poor guilty Creature as a prey into its dreadful Den, Psal. 49. 14. In this lies the danger and horror of death: but from death as a curse, and from the grave as a Prison, Christ hath set Believers at liberty, by submitting to death in their room, by his victorious resurrection from the grave, as the first-born of the dead: death is disarmed of its hurting power: the death of Believers is but a sleep in Jesus.
Thirdly, The next thing to be briefly spoken to, is the 1kind and nature of that freedom and liberty purchased and procured by Christ for Believers.
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Now liberty may be considered two ways.