A39669:2535
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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The Thirty second SERMON.1
- 1Sermon 32.
JOHN 3. 18. 1—But he that believeth not is condemned already, 2because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God.
- 1Text.
- 2The Condemnation of unbelievers opened and applied.
Christ having discoursed Nicodemus in the beginning of this Chapter about the necessity of regeneration, proceeds to show in this following discourse the reason and ground why regeneration and faith are so indispensably necessary, viz. Because there is no other way to set men free from the curse and condemnation of the Law. The curse of the Law like the fiery serpents in the wilderness, hath smitten every sinner with a deadly stroke and sting, for which there is no cure, but Christ lifted up in the Gospel, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, ver. 14. Neither doth Christ cure any but those that believingly apply him to their own souls. The result and conclusion of all you have in my Text, He that believeth in him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, &c. In this clause which I have pitched upon, we find these three parts.