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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
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.
If the change by grace be a new creation, how universal and marvellous a change doth regeneration make upon men! The new 1Creation speaks a marvellous and universal alteration both upon the state and tempers of men: they come out of darkness, gross, hellish darkness into light, a marvellous and heavenly light, 1 Pet. 2. 9. Eph. 5. 8. their condition, disposition and conversation (as you have heard) is all new: and yet this marvellous change as great and universal as it is, is not alike evident and clearly discernible in all new creatures: and the reasons are,
If the change by grace be a new creation, how universal and marvellous a change doth regeneration make upon men! The new 1Creation speaks a marvellous and universal alteration both upon the state and tempers of men: they come out of darkness, gross, hellish darkness into light, a marvellous and heavenly light, 1 Pet. 2. 9. Eph. 5. 8. their condition, disposition and conversation (as you have heard) is all new: and yet this marvellous change as great and universal as it is, is not alike evident and clearly discernable in all new creatures: and the reasons are,
- 1Inference 6.
First, Because the work of grace is wrought in diverse methods, and manners in the people of God. Some are changed from a state of notorious profaneness unto serious godliness: there the change is conspicuous and very evident; all the neighbourhood rings of it: But in others it is more insensibly