A39669:2510
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.
1. The causes of spiritual life have not wrought upon them. 2. The effects and signs of spiritual life do not appear in ⟨p. 532⟩them, and therefore they are in the state, and under the power of spiritual death.
First, The causes of spiritual life have not wrought upon them. There are two causes of spiritual life.
1. Principal and internal. 2. Subordinate and external.
The principal internal cause of spiritual life is the regenerating spirit of Christ, Rom. 8. 2. The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 'Tis the spirit as a regenerating spirit that unites us with Christ in whom all spiritual life originally is, John 5. 25, 26. Verily I say unto you that the hour is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live; for as the father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the son to have life in himself. As all the members of the natural body receive animation, sense, and motion by their Union with their natural head; so all believers the members of Christ, receive spiritual life and animation by their Union with Christ their mystical head,