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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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Evidence 2.
That which proves a soul to be under the Covenant of Grace, evidently proves its interest in Christ: for Christ is the head of that Covenant, and none but sound Believers are under the blessings and promises of it; but mortification of sin is a sound evidence of the souls being under the Covenant of Grace, as is plain from those words of the Apostle, Rom. 6. 12, 13, 14. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lust thereof; neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield your selves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God; for sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the Law but under Grace: where the Apostle presseth Believers unto mortification by this encouragement, that it will be a good evidence unto them of a new Covenant interest: for all legal duties and endeavours can never mortify sin: 'tis the spirit in the new Covenant which produces this: whoever therefore hath his corruptions mortified, hath his interest in the Covenant, and consequently in Christ, so far cleared unto him.
That which proves a soul to be under the Covenant of Grace, evidently proves its interest in Christ: for Christ is the head of that Covenant, and none but sound Believers are under the blessings and promises of it; but mortification of sin is a sound evidence of the souls being under the Covenant of Grace, as is plain from those words of the Apostle, Rom. 6. 12, 13, 14. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lust thereof; neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield your selves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God; sor sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the Law but under Grace: where the Apostle presseth Believers unto mortification by this incouragement, that it will be a good evidence unto them of a new Covenant interest: for all legal duties and endeavours can never mortifie sin: 'tis the spirit in the new Covenant which produces this: whoever therefore hath his corruptions mortified, hath his interest in the Covenant, and consequently in Christ, so far cleared unto him.