A39669:550
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.
The Fifth SERMON.1
- 1Serm. 5.
EPHES. 2. 1. And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses 1and sins.
- 1Opening that work of the Spirit more particularly, by which the soul is enabled to apply Christ.
IN the former Sermons we have seen our Union with Christ in the general nature of it, and the means by which it is effected, both external by the preaching of the Gospel, and internal by the drawings of the Father. We are now to bring our thoughts yet closer to this great mystery, and consider the bonds or ligaments by which Christ and believers are knit together in a blessed oneness.
And if we heedfully observe the Scripture expressions, and ponder the nature of this Union, we shall find there are two bands which knit Christ and the soul together, viz.