A39669:173
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.
Inference 1.
Learn from hence what a naked, destitute and empty thing a poor sinner is in his natural and unregenerate state.1
- 1Infer. 1.
He is one that naturally and inherently hath neither wisdom, nor righteousness, sanctification nor redemption: all 1these must come from without himself, even from Christ; who is made all this to a sinner, or else he must eternally perish.
He is one that naturally and inherently hath neither wisdome, nor righteousness, sanctification nor redemption: all 1these must come from without himself, even from Christ; who is made all this to a sinner, or else he must eternally perish.
- 1Quin dicitur eum factum esse nobis sapie•tiam, justitiam, sanctitatem & redemptionem, rursus & nostra dignitas & meritum excluduntur: ex hoc etiam consequitur, ante perceptionem ejus, nos fuisse slultos, injustos, profanos & diaboli ma•cipia. Muscul. inloc.