A39669:623
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.
Infer. 1.
If such be the nature and necessity of this principle of divine 1life, as you have heard it opened in the foregoing discourse, then hence it follows, That unregenerate men are no better than dead men. So the Text represents them, you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins: (i. e.) spiritually dead though naturally alive, yea and lively too as any other persons in the world. There is a threefold consideration of objects,
- 1Infer. 1.
Viz. 1. Naturally. 2. Politically. 3. Theologically.
First, Naturally, to all those things that are natural, they are alive: they can understand, reason, discourse, project and contrive as well as others, they can eat, drink, build, plant, and suck out the natural comfort of these things as much as any others. So their life is described, Job 21. 12