A39669:176
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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Inference 2.
Hence again we are informed, that none can claim benefit by imputed 1righteousness, but those only that live in the power of inherent holiness: to whomsoever Christ is made righteousness, to him he is also made sanctification.
Hence again we are informed, that none can claim benefit by impilted 1righteousness, but those only that live in the power of inherent holiness: to whomsoever Christ is made righteousness, to him he is also made sanctification.
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The Gospel hath not the least favour for licentiousness: it is every way as careful to press men to their duties, as to instruct them in their privileges, Titus 3. 8. This is a faithful saying; and these things I will that thou affirm constantly; That they which have believed in God, might be careful to maintain good works: It is a loose principle, divulged by Libertines to the reproach of Christ and his Gospel, that sanctification is not the evidence of our justification: and Christ is as much wronged by them who separate holiness from righteousness (as if a sensual vile life were consistent with a justified state) as he is in the contrary extreme by those who confound Christs righteousness with mans holiness, in the point of Justification: or that own no other righteousness but what is inherent in themselves: the former opinion makes him a cloak for sin, the later a needless sacrifice for sin.