A39669:1725
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, to be brought unto God, must needs imply a state of perfect joy and highest delight: so speaks the Apostle Jude v. 14. Christ shall present or bring them to God with exceeding joy: and more fully the joy of this day is expressed, Psal. 45. 15. With joy and rejoicing shall they be brought, they shall enter into the Kings Palace: it will be a day of universal joy, when all the Saints are brought home to God in a perfected state. For,
Fourthly, to be brought unto God, must needs imply a state of perfect joy and highest delight: so speaks the Apostle Jude v. 14. Christ shall present or bring them to God with exceeding joy: and more fully the joy of this day is expressed, Psal. 45. 15. With joy and rejoycing shall they be brought, they shall enter into the Kings Palace: it will be a day of universal joy, when all the Saints are brought home to God in a perfected state. For,
1. God the Father will rejoice when Christ brings home that precious number of his elect, whom he redeemed by his blood: he rejoiceth in them now though imperfect, and under many distasteful corruptions and weaknesses, Zeph. 3. 17. How much more will he rejoice in them when Christ presents them without spot or wrinkle to him, Ephes. 5. 27.
1. God the Father will rejoice when Christ brings home that precious number of his elect, whom he redeemed by his blood: he rejoyceth in them now though imperfect, and under many distastful corruptions and weaknesses,