A39669:1973
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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The teachings of God are sanctifying and renewing teachings: they reform and change the heart, Eph. 4. 21, 22, 23. If so be that you have heard him, and been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, &c. See here what holiness and purity is the effect of divine teaching: holiness both external and internal, negative and positive: holiness of every kind follows the Fathers teachings: all the discoveries God makes to us of himself in Christ have an assimilating quality, and change the soul into their own likeness, 2 Cor. 3. 18.
The teachings of God are sanctifying and renewing teachings: they reform and change the heart, Eph. 4. 21, 22, 23. If so be that you have heard him, and been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, &c. See here what holiness and purity is the effect of divine teaching: holiness both external and internal, negative and positive: holiness of every kind follows the Fathers teachings: all the discoveries God makes to us of himself in Christ have an assimulating quality, and change the soul into their own likeness, 2 Cor. 3. 18.