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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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How honourable are Christians by their new birth! they are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of 1man, but of God, Joh. 1. 13. (i. e.) not in an impure, or mere natural way, but in a most spiritual and supernatural manner: they are the off-spring of God, the children of the most high, as well by regeneration as by adoption: which is the greatest advancement of the humane nature next to its hypostatical union with the second person: Oh what honour is this for a poor sinful creature to have the very life of God breathed into his soul! all other dignities of nature are trifles compared with this: this makes a Christian a sacred hallowed thing, the living temple of God, 1 Cor. 6. 19. the special object of his delight.
How honourable are Christians by their new birth! they are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of 1man, but of God, Joh. 1. 13. (i. e.) not in an impure, or meer natural way, but in a most spiritual and supernatural manner: they are the off-spring of God, the children of the most high, as well by regeneration as by adoption: which is the greatest advancement of the humane nature next to its hypostatical union with the second person: Oh what honour is this for a poor sinful creature to have the very life of God breathed into his soul! all other dignities of nature are trifles compar'd with this: this makes a Christian a sacred hallowed thing, the living temple of God,