A39669:2332
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.
Viz. 1. A Claim to Christ supposed. 2. The only way to have our claim warranted.
First, We have here a claim to Christ supposed; if any 1man say he abideth in him: abiding in Christ is an expression denoting proper and real interest in Christ, and communion with him: for it is put in opposition to those temporary, light and transient effects of the Gospel, which are called a morning dew, or an early cloud: such a receiving of Christ as that, Mat. 13. 21. which is but a present flash, a sudden vanishing pang: abiding in Christ notes a solid, durable and effectual work of the Spirit, throughly and everlastingly joining the soul to Christ. Now, if any man whosoever he be (for this indefinite is equivalent to an universal term) let him never think his claim to be good and valid, except he take this course to adjust it.
First, We have here a claim to Christ supposed; if any 1man say he abideth in him: abiding in Christ is an expression denoting proper and real interest in Christ, and communion with him: for it is put in opposition to those temporary, light and transient effects of the Gospel, which are called a morning dew, or an early cloud: such a receiving of Christ as that, Mat. 13. 21. which is but a present flash, a sudden vanishing pang: abiding in Christ notes a solid, durable and effectual work of the Spirit, throughly and everlastingly joyning the soul to Christ. Now, if any man whosoever he be (for this indefinite is equivalent to an universal term) let him never think his claim to be good and valid, except he take this course to adjust it.
- 11.