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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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Fourthly, Christs bringing us to God evidently implies 1this, that Gods unsatisfied justice was once the great bar betwixt him and man: man can have no access to God but by Christ: Christ brings us to God by no other way but the way of satisfaction by his blood: he hath suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. Better ten thousand worlds should perish for ever, than God should lose the honour of his justice. This great Obex, or bar to our enjoyment of God is effectually removed by the death of Christ: whereby it is not only fully satisfied, but highly ⟨p. 338⟩honoured and glorified, Rom. 3. 24. and so the way by which we are brought to God is again opened (to the wonder and joy of all Believers) by the blood and sufferings of Christ.
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Fifthly, and lastly, It shows us the peculiar happiness and 1privilege of Believers above all people in the world. These only are they which shall be brought to God by Jesus Christ in a reconciled state: others indeed shall be brought to God as a Judge, to be condemned by him: Believers only are brought to God in the Mediators hand, as a reconciled Father to be made blessed for ever in the enjoyment of him: every Believer is brought singly to God at his death, Luke 16. 22. and all Believers shall be jointly and solemnly presented to God in the great day, Col. 1. 22. Jude v. 24. They shall be all presented faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. Now the privilege of Believers in that day will lie in diverse things.