A39669:194
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.
Infer. 5.
If Christ with all his benefits be made ours by Gods special application; 1what a day of mercies then is the day of conversion! What multitudes of choice blessings visit the converted soul in that day!
- 1Infer. 5.
This day (saith Christ to Zacheus Luke 19. 9.) is Salvation come to this house: in this day Christ cometh into the soul, and he comes not empty; but brings with him all his treasures of wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption. Troops of mercies, yea of the best of mercies come with him. It is a day of singular gladness and joy to the heart of Christ when he is Espoused to, and received by the believing soul: it is as a Coronation day to a King. So you read Cant. 3. 11. Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the Crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his Espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.