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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.
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: 1yet it doth not justify and save us by reason of any proper dignity that is found in this Act, but by reason of the object it receives and apprehends: the same thing is often expressed in Scripture by other terms, as coming to Christ, Joh. 6. 35. rolling or staying upon Christ, Isa. 50. 10. but whatever is found in those expressions it is all comprehended in this, as will appear hereafter. Now, the method into which I shall cast the discourse of this subject, that I may handle it with as much perspicuity and profit as I can, shall be
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: 1yet it doth not justifie and save us by reason of any proper dignity that is found in this Act, but by reason of the object it receives and apprehends: the same thing is often exprest in Scripture by other terms, as coming to Christ,