A39669:2124
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 3.
Learn from hence that the work of grace is wholly supernatural: 1'tis a creation, and creation work is above the power of the creature: no power but that which gave being to the world, can give a being to the new creature: almighty power goes forth to give being to the new creature: this creature is not born of ⟨p. 446⟩flesh or of blood, nor of the will of man but of God, Joh. 1. 13. the nature of this new creature speaks its original to be above the power of nature: the very notion of a new creation spoils the proud boasts of the great asserters of the power and ability of the will of man. When God therefore puts the question, who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received? Let thy soul, Reader, answer it with all humility and thankfulness; 'tis thou, Lord, thou only, that madest me to differ from another, and what I have received, I have received from thy free grace.
- 1Inference 3.