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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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Inference 2.
And on the contrary we may hence learn, what cause regenerate 1souls have to bless God for the day wherein they were born. O what a privileged state doth the new birth bring men into! 'Tis possible for the present they understand it not, for many Believers are like a great Heir lying in the Cradle that knows not to what an estate and honour he is born: Nevertheless on the same day wherein we become new creatures by regeneration, we have a firm title, and solid claim to all the privileges of the Sons of God, Joh. 1. 12, 13. God becomes our Father by a treble title, not only the Father of our beings by nature, which was all the relation we had to him before, but our Father by Adoption and by Regeneration: which is a much sweeter and more comfortable relation. In that day the Image of God is restored, Eph. 4. 24. this is both the health and beauty of the soul. In that day we are begotten again to a lively hope, 1 Pet. 1. 3. a hope more worth than ten thousand worlds, in the troubles of life, and in the straits of death: this is a creature which lives for ever, and will make thy life happy for ever. Some have kept their birthday as a festival, a day of rejoicing, but none have more cause to rejoice that ever they were born, than those that are new born.
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