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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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Thirdly, This also we may affirm of it, that this divine life is infused into all the natural faculties and powers of the soul, not one exempted. 1 Thes. 5. 23. The whole soul and spirit is the recipient subject of it: and with respect to this general infusion into all the faculties and powers of the soul, it's called a new creature, a new man, having an integral perfection and fullness of all its parts and members: it becomes light in the mind, Joh. 17. 3. obedience in the will, 1 Pet. 1. 2. in the affections an heavenly temper and tenderness, Col. 3. 1, 2. and so is variously denominated, even as the Sea is from the several shores it washes, though it be one and the same Sea. And here we must observe lies one main difference betwixt a regenerate soul, and an hypocrite; the one is all of a piece, as I may say, the principle of spiritual life runs into all and every faculty and affection; and sanctifies or renews the ⟨p. 101⟩whole man: whereas the change upon hypocrites is but partial and particular, he may have new light, but no new love, a new tongue, but not a new heart: this or that vice may be reformed, but the whole course of his life is not altered.
Thirdly, This also we may affirm of it, that this divine life is infused into all the natural faculties and powers of the soul, not one exempted. 1 Thes. 5. 23. The whole soul and spirit is the recipient subject of it: and with respect to this general infusion into all the faculties and powers of the soul, it's call'd a new creature, a new man, having an integral perfection and fullness of all its parts and members: it becomes light in the mind, Joh. 17. 3. obedience in the will, 1 Pet. 1. 2. in the affections an heavenly temper and tenderness,