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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
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.
That the receiving of the Lord Jesus Christ, is that saving and vital act of faith, which gives the soul right both to his person and 1benefits.
- 1Doct.
We cannot act spiritually, till we begin to live spiritually: therefore the Spirit of life must first join himself to us in his quickening work, (as was shown you in the last Sermon) which being done, we begin to act spiritually by taking hold upon, or receiving Jesus Christ, which is the thing designed to be opened in this Sermon.
We cannot act spiritually, till we begin to live spiritually: therefore the Spirit of life must first joyn himself to us in his quickening work, (as was shewn you in the last Sermon) which being done, we begin to act spiritually by taking hold upon, or receiving Jesus Christ, which is the thing designed to be opened in this Sermon.
The soul is the life of the body, faith is the life of the soul, and Christ is the life of faith. There are several sorts of faith besides saving faith, and in saving faith there are several acts besides the justifying or saving act; but this receiving act which is to be our subject this day, is that upon which both our righteousness and eternal happiness do depend. This as a form differences saving faith from all other kinds or sorts of faith: by this it is that we are justified and saved. To as many as received ⟨p. 116⟩him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God: 1