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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.
Secondly, Next we are to consider that great Concernment 1about which these Ambassadors of Christ are to treat with sinners: and that (as the Text informs us) is their reconciliation to God.
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Now reconciliation with God, is the restoring of men to 1that former friendship they had with God, which was broken by the fall, and is still continued by our Enmity and aversation, whilst we continue in our Natural, and unregenerate Estate. Now this is the greatest and most blessed design that ever God had in the world: an astonishing and invaluable mercy to men, as will clearly appear by considering these particulars following.
Now reconciliation with God, is the restoring of men to 1that former frindship they had with God, which was broken by the fall, and is still continued by our Enmity and aversation, whilst we continue in our Natural, and unregenerate Estate. Now this is the greatest and most blessed design that ever God had in the world: an astonishing and invaluable mercy to men, as will clearly appear by considering these particulars following.
- 1Reconciliarenihil aliud est quam amicitiam offensione aliquagravi diremptam resarcire, & sic inimicos in pristinam concordiam reducere. Daven. in […] Col. 20.Reconciliarenihil aliud est quam amicitiam offensione aliquagravi diremptam resarcire, & sic inimicos in pristinam concordiam reducere. Daven. in 〈…〉 Col. 20.