A39669:457
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.
[Greek or Hebrew],—come unto me] (i. e.) believe in me unto Salvation. Coming to Christ, and believing in him are terms equipollent, and are indifferently used to express the nature of saving faith, as is plain from ver. 35. he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst: it notes the terms from which, and to which the soul moves, and the voluntariness of the motion, notwithstanding that divine power by which the will is drawn to Christ.
〈non-Latin alphabet〉,—come unto me] (i. e.) believe in me unto Salvation. Coming to Christ, and believing in him are terms aequipollent, and are indifferently used to express the nature of saving faith, as is plain from ver. 35. he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst: it notes the terms from which, and to which the soul moves, and the voluntariness of the motion, notwithstanding that divine power by which the will is drawn to Christ.
[Greek or Hebrew]—Except my Father] not excluding the other two persons, for every work of God relating to the Creatures is common to all the three persons, nor only to note that the Father is the first in order of working: but the reason is hinted in the next words,
〈non-Latin alphabet〉—Except my Father] not excluding the other two persons, for every work of God relating to the Creatures is common to all the three persons, nor only to note that the Father is the first in order of working: but the reason is hinted in the next words,
[Greek or Hebrew]—who hath sent me] God having entered into Covenant with the son and sent him, stands obliged by that paction to bring the promised seed to him, and that he doth by drawing them to Christ by faith: so the next words tell us the Father doth