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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.
2 Cor. 5. 20. 1Now then, we are Ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you, we pray you in Christs stead; be ye reconciled to God.
- 1Opening the nature and use of of the Gospel Ministry, as an external means of applying Christ.
The Effectual Application of Christ principally consists in our Union with him, but (ordinarily) there can be no Union without a Gospel tender and overture of him to our souls, for how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a Preacher? and how shall he preach except he be sent? Rom. 10. 14.
THe Effectual Application of Christ principally consists in our Union with him, but (ordinarily) there can be no Union without a Gospel tender and overture of him to our souls, for how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a Preacher? and how shall he preach except he be sent? Rom. 10. 14.
IF God be upon a design of marrying poor sinners to his Son, there must be a treaty in order to it: that treaty requires interlocution betwixt both the parties concerned in it: but such is our frailty, that should God speak immediately to us himself, it would confound and overwhelm us: God therefore graciously condescends and accommodates himself to our infirmity, in treating with us in order to our Union with Christ by his Ambassadors, and these not Angels whose converses we cannot bear, but men like our selves who are commissionated for the effecting of this great business betwixt Christ and us. Now then we are Ambassadors for God, &c. In which words you have