A39669:1714
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.
In the explication and preparation of this point for use two things must be spoken unto.
viz. 1. What Christs bringing us to God imports. 2. What influence the death of Christ hath upon this design of bringing us to God.
First, What Christs bringing us to God imports: and certainly 1there be many great and excellent things carried in this expression: more generally it notes our state of reconciliation and our state of glorification: by reconciliation we are brought nigh to God, Ephes. 2. 13. Ye are made nigh, (i. e:) reconciled, by the blood of Christ. Heb. 12. 22, 23. we are said to come to God the Judge of all. By reconciliation we are brought nigh unto God now; by glorification we shall be ⟨p. 337⟩brought home to God hereafter, 1 Thes. 4. 17. We shall be ever with the Lord: but more particularly this phrase, that he might brings us to God, imports,
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