A39669:419
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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5. Evidence.
We love not the Children of God, nor are reconciled to them that bear his Image, and how then can we be reconciled 1to God? 1 Joh. 5. 1. He that loveth him that begat, loveth them also that are begotten: what, at peace with the father, and at War with the children! It cannot be: do not some that hope they have made their peace with God, hate, revile and persecute the Children of God? Surely in that day we are reconciled to the Lord, we are reconciled to all his people: we shall then love a Christian as a Christian, and by this we know we are passed from death to life.
We love not the Children of God, nor are reconciled to them that bear his Image, and how then can we be reconciled 1to God? 1 Joh. 5. 1. He that loveth him that begat, loveth them also that are begotten: what, at peace with the father, and at War with the children! It cannot be: do not some that hope they have made their peace with God, hate, revile and persecute the Children of God? Surely in that day we are reconciled to the Lord, we are reconciled to all his people: we shall then love a Christian as a Christan, and by this we know we are passed from death to life.
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