A39669:625
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.
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. They take the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoice at the sound of the Organ: they spend their •ays in Wealth, &c. and James 5. 5. ye have lived in pleasure upon earth, as the fish lives in the water its natural element, and yet •is natural sensual life is not allowed the name of life, 1 Tim. 5. 6. such persons are dead whilst they live: 'tis a base and ignoble life, to have a soul only to salt the body, or to enable a man ⟨p. 109⟩for a few years to eat, and drink, and talk, and laugh, and then dye.
First, Naturally, to all those things that are natural, they are alive: they can understand, reason, discourse, preject 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. They take the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoyce at the sound of the Organ: they spend their •ays in Wealth, &c. and James 5. 5. ye have lived in pleasure upon earth, as the fish lives in the water its natural element, and yet •is natural sensual life is not allowed the name of life,