A39669:2079
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.
1. Why the regenerating work of the Spirit is called a new Creation. 2. In what respects every soul that is in Christ is renewed or made a new Creature. 3. What are the remarkable properties, and qualities of this new Creature. 4. The necessity of this new Creation to all that are in Christ. 5. How this new Creation evidences our interest in Christ. 6. And then Apply the whole in the proper uses of it.
First, Why the regenerating work of the spirit is called a 1new Creation: this must be our first enquiry: and doubtless the reason of this appellation is the Analogy, proportion, and ⟨p. 430⟩similitude which is found betwixt the work of regeneration, and Gods work in the first Creation: and their agreement, and proportion will be found in the following particulars.
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First, The same Almighty Author who created the world, createth also this work of grace in the soul of man, 2 Cor. 4. 6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ: the same powerful word which created the natural, createth also the spiritual light: it is equally absurd for any man to say, I make my self 1to repent, or to believe, as it is to say, I made my self to exist and be.