A39669:2426
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.
DOCT.
That every man is bound to the imitation of Christ, under penalty of forfeiting his claim to Christ.1
- 1Doct.
In prosecution of this point we have already shown what the imitation of Christ imports, and what the imitable excellencies in the life of Christ are: it now remains that I show you in the next place, why all that profess Christ, are bound to imitate his example, and then apply the whole. Now the necessity of this imitation of Christ will convincingly appear diverse ways.
In prosecution of this point we have already shewn what the imitation of Christ imports, and what the imitable excellencies in the life of Christ are: it now remains that I show you in the next place, why all that profess Christ, are bound to imitate his example, and then apply the whole. Now the necessity of this imitation of Christ will convincingly appear diverse ways.
First, From the established order of salvation which is fixed and unalterable: God that hath appointed the end, hath also