A39669:1681
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.
Fourthly, And this brings us to the fourth and last thing; 1namely the properties of this blessed freedom which the Saints enjoy by Jesus Christ: and if we consider it duly it will be found to be,
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First, A wonderful liberty, never enough to be admired: how could it be imagined that ever those who owed unto God more than ever they could pay by their own eternal sufferings, those that were under the dreadful curse and condemnation of the Law, in the power and possession of Satan the strong man armed; those that were bound with so many chains in their spiritual prison; their understanding bound with ignorance, their wills with obstinacy, their hearts with impenetrable hardness, their affections with a thousand bewitching vanities; that slight their state of slavery so much as industriously to oppose all instruments and means of deliverance: For such persons to be set at liberty, notwithstanding ⟨p. 330⟩all this, is the wonder of wonders, and is deservedly marvellous in the eyes of Believers for ever.
Secondly, The freedom of Believers is a peculiar freedom: a liberty which few obtain, the generality abiding still in bondage to Satan, who from the multitude of his Subjects is styled the god of this world, 2 Cor. 4. 4. Believers in Scripture are often called a remnant, which is but a small part of the whole piece: the more cause have the people of God to admire distinguishing mercy: how many Nobles and great ones of the world are but royal slaves to Satan and their own lusts!