A39669:2115
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 soul of any man, is that mans sure and infallible evidence of a 1saving interest in Jesus Christ.
- 1Doct.
You have heard why the regenerating work of the Spirit is called a new creation; in what respect every soul in Christ is renewed; what the eximious properties of this new creature are: the indispensableness and necessity thereof hath been also proved: and how it evidences our interest in Christ was cleared in the doctrinal part, which we now come to improve in the several Uses serving ⟨p. 444⟩for our 1. Information. 2. Conviction. 3. Examination. 4. Exhortation. 5. Consolation.
You have heard why the regenerating work of the Spirit is called a new creation; in what respect every soul in Christ is renewed; what the eximious properties of this new creature are: the indispensibleness and necessity thereof hath been also proved: and how it evidences our interest in Christ was cleared in the doctrinal part, which we now come to improve in the several Uses serving ⟨p. 444⟩for our 1. Information. 2. Conviction. 3. Examination. 4. Exhortation. 5. Consolation.