A39669:2072
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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Thirdly, This general rule is here more particularly explained, 1old things are passed away, behold all things are become new: he satisfies not himself to lay down this rule concisely, or express it in general terms by telling us the man in Christ must be a new Creature, but more particularly, he shows us what this new creature is, and what the parts thereof are, viz.
Thirdly, This general rule is here more particularly explained, 1old things are passed away, behold all things are become new: he satisfies not himself to lay down this rule concisely, or express it in general terms by telling us the man in Christ must be a new Creature, but more particularly, he shews us what this new creature is, and what the parts thereof are, viz.
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Both the 1. Privative part, old things are passed away. 2. Positive part thereof, all things are become new.
By old things he means all those carnal principles, self ends, fleshly lusts belonging to the carnal state, or the old man: all these are passed away; not simply, and perfectly, but only in 1part at present, and wholly in hope, and expectation hereafter. So much briefly of the privative part of the new Creature: old things are passed away: a word or two must be spoken of the positive part, all things are become new. He means not that the old faculties of the soul are abolished, and new ones created in their room: but as our bodies may be said to be new bodies by reason of their new endowments, and qualities super-induced and bestowed upon them in their resurrection; so our souls are now renewed by the infusion of new gracious principles into them in the work of regeneration. These two parts, viz. the privative part, the passing away of old things; and the positive part, the renewing of all things, do betwixt them comprise the whole nature of sanctification, which in other Scriptures is expressed by equivalent phrases: sometimes by putting off the old, and putting on the new man,