A39669:2437
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 1.
If all that profess interest in Christ be strictly bound to imitate his holy example, then it follows that Religion is very unjustly charged 1by the world with the scandals, and evils of them that profess it. Nothing can be more unjust, and irrational if we consider
- 1Inference 1.
First, That Christian Religion severely censures loose and scandalous actions in all professors: and therefore is not to be censured for them. 'Tis absurd to condemn Religion, for what it self condemns: Looseness no way flows from the principles of Christianity, but is most opposite, and contrary to it, Titus 2. 11, 12. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men: teaching us, that denying ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.
First, That Christian Religion severely censures loose and scandalous actions in all professors: and therefore is not to be censured for them. 'Tis absurd to condemn Religion, for what it self condemns: Looseness no way flowes from the principles of Christianity, but is most opposite, and contrary to it,