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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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Arg. 3.
That which is of natural production, must needs be subject to natural dissolution, that which is born of the flesh, is flesh, a perishing thing, for everything is as its principle is, and there can be no more in the effect, than there is in the cause: but this principle of spiritual life is not subject to dissolution, it is the water that springs up into everlasting life, Joh. 4. 14. the seed of God which remaineth in the regenerate soul, 1 Joh. 3. 9. and all this because it's born not of corruptible, but of incorruptible seed, 1 Pet. 1. 23.
That which is of natural production, must needs be subject to natural dissolution, that which is born of the flesh, is flesh, a perishing thing, sor everything is as its principle is, and there can be no more in the effect, than there is in the cause: but this principle of spiritual life is not subject to dissolution, it is the water that springs up into everlasting life, Joh. 4. 14. the seed of God which remaineth in the regenerate soul, 1 Joh. 3. 9. and all this because it's born not of corruptible, but of incorruptible seed, 1 Pet. 1. 23.