A39669:570
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.
There is indeed a quickening work of the Spirit, which is subsequent to regeneration, consisting in his exciting, recovering, and actuating of his own graces in us, and from hence is the liveliness of a Christian; and there is a quickening act of the Spirit in our regeneration, and from hence is the first spiritual life of a Christian, of this I am here to speak, and that I may speak profitably to this point, I will in the Doctrinal part labour to open these five particulars.
First, What this spiritual life is in its nature and properties. Secondly, In what manner it is wrought or inspired into the Soul. Thirdly, For what end, or with what design this life is so inspired. Fourthly, I shall show this work to be wholly supernatural. And then fifthly, Why this quickening must be antecedent to our actual closing with Christ by Faith.
First, What this spiritual life is in its nature and properties. Secondly, In what manner it is wrought or inspired into the Soul. Thirdly, For what end, or with what design this life is so inspired. Fourthly, I shall shew this work to be wholly supernatural. And then fifthly, Why this quickening must be antecedent to our actual closing with Christ by Faith.
First, We will enquire into the nature and properties of 1this life, and discover (as we are able) what it is. And we find it to consist in that wonderful change which the Spirit of God makes upon the frame and temper of the soul, by his infusing or implanting the principles of grace in all the powers and faculties thereof.
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