A39669:1868
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.
The words read consist of two parts, Viz. 1. An allegation out of the Prophets. 2. The application thereof made by Christ.
First, An allegation out of the Prophets: it is written in the Prophets, And they shall be all taught of God: the places in 1the Prophets to which Christ seems here to refer are, Isa. 54. 13. and all thy Children shall be taught of the Lord, and Jer. 31. 34. and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: these promises contain the great blessings of the New Covenant, viz. Divine instruction, and heavenly illumination, without which no man can be brought up to the terms of the New Covenant.
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Secondly, We have here the application of these Testimonies 1out of the Prophets made by Christ himself, every man therefore that hath heard, and learned of the Father cometh unto me.
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