A39669:2076
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.
That Gods creating of a new supernatural work of grace in the 1soul of any man, is that mans sure and infallible evidence of a saving interest in Jesus Christ.
- 1Doct.
Suitable hereunto are those words of the Apostle, Eph. 4. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. But ye have not so learned Christ, if so be that ye have heard him, and have 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 deceitful lusts: and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness: where we have in other words of the same importance, the very self-same description of the man that is in Christ, which the Apostle gives us in this Text. Now for the opening and stating of this point, it will be necessary that I show you,
Suitable hereunto are those words of the Apostle, Eph. 4. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. But ye have not so learned Christ, if so be that ye have heard him, and have 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 deceitful lusts: and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness: where we have in other words of the same importance, the very self-same description of the man that is in Christ, which the Aposte gives us in this Text. Now for the opening and stating of this point, it will be necessary that I shew you,