A39669:1998
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.
DOCT.1
- 1Doct.
That interest in Christ may be certainly gathered, and concluded from the gift of the spirit to us: no man (saith the Apostle) hath seen God at any time: if we love one another, God dwelleth in us; and his love is perfected in us: hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit, 1 Joh. 4. 12, 13. The being of God is invisible, but the operations of his Spirit in believers are sensible and discernible. The souls union with Christ is a supernatural mystery, yet is it discoverable by the effects thereof, which are very perceptible in and by believers. Two things require Explication, and Confirmation in the Doctrinal part of this point.
That interest in Christ may be certainly gathered, and concluded from the gift of the spirit to us: no man (saith the Apostle) hath seen God at any time: if we love one another, God dwelleth in us; and his love is perfected in us: hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit, 1 Joh. 4. 12, 13. The being of God is invisible, but the operations of his Spirit in believers are sensible and discernable. The souls union with Christ is a supernatural mystery, yet is it discoverable by the effects thereof, which are very perceptible in and by believers. Two things require Explication, and Confirmation in the Doctrinal part of this point.