A39669:1708
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.
Secondly, The meritorious cause of the sufferings of Christ, and that is sin, Christ once suffered for sins: not his own sins, but ours: as it follows in the next clause, which is the third thing here observable, viz.
Thirdly, The admirable grace and unexampled love of Christ to us sinners, the just for the unjust, in which words the substitution of Christ in the room and place of sinners, the vice-gerence of his death is plainly expressed. Christ died not only nostro bono, for our good, but also nostro loco in our stead.
Fourthly, Here is also the final cause or design and scope of the sufferings of Christ, which was to bring us to God.
Fifthly, Here is also the issue of the sufferings of Christ, which was the death of Christ in the flesh, and the quickening of Christ after death by the Spirit: many excellent observations are lodged in the bosom of this Scripture: all which I must pass in silence at this time, and confine my discourse to the final cause of the sufferings of Christ, namely that he might bring us to God: where the observation will be plainly and briefly this.
Fifthly, Here is also the issue of the sufferings of Christ, which was the death of Christ in the flesh, and the quickning of Christ after death by the Spirit: many excellent observations are lodged in the bosom of this Scripture: all which I must pass in silence at this time, and confine my discourse to the final cause of the sufferings of Christ, namely that he might bring us to God: where the observation will be plainly and briefly this.