A39669:2118
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.
1st Use for Information.
Is the new Creature the sure and infallible evidence of our 1saving interest in Christ? from hence then we are informed,
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Inference 1.
How miserable and deplorable an estate all unrenewed souls are in: who can lay no claim to Christ during that state, and 1therefore are under an impossibility of salvation. O Reader, if this be the state of thy soul, better had it been for thee not to have been Gods natural workmanship as a man, except thou be his spiritual workmanship also as a new man. I know the Schoolmen determine otherwise, and say that damnation is rather to be chosen than an annihilation: a miserable being is better than no being: and it is very true with respect to the glory of God, whose justice shall triumph for ever in the damnation of the unregenerate; but with respect to us, 'tis much better never to have been his creatures in the way of generation, than not to be his new creatures in the way of regeneration. So Christ speaks of Judas, that Son of perdition,