A39669:372
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.
If you say, how can this be, when God stands upon full 1satisfaction to his Justice before any soul be discharged, and restored to savour? freely reconciled, and yet fully satisfied, how can this be?
- 1Object.
Very well, for this mercy comes freely to your hands, how 1costly soever it proved to Christ: and that free remission, and full satisfaction are not contradictory and inconsistent things, is plain enough from that Scripture, Rom. 3. 24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: freely and yet in the way of redemption.
- 1Solut.
For though Christ your surety have made satisfaction in your name and stead, yet it was his life, his blood, and not yours, that went for it, and this surety was of Gods own appointment and providing without your contrivement or thoughts. O blessed reconciliation, happy is the people that hear the joyful sound of it.