A39669:668
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.
Fourthly, To remove some mistakes, and give you the true account of the dignity and excellency of this act.1
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Fifthly, And then bring home all in a proper and close application.1
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First, In the first place then, I will endeavour to explain 1and open the nature of this receiving of Christ, and show you what is implied in it.
First, In the first place then, I will endeavour to explain 1and open the nature of this receiving of Christ, and shew you what is implyed in it.
- 1(1.) There are divers other expressions by which the nature of saving faith is expressed in Scripture, viz. eating Christs flesh, and drinking his blood, Joh. 6. 40. coming to Christ, Mat. 11. 28. Having the son, 1 Joh. 5. 12. Trusting or depending upon him, for which the Hebrew use thee emphatical wods, [Greek or Hebrew] The first signifies a firm and stable trust. The second to lean or depend with security. The third to betake ones self to a sanctuary for protection: all which is supposed or included in our receiving of the Lord Jesus Christ: in eating and drinking we must receive meat and drink, coming to Christ is necessarily supposed in receiving him, for there is no receiving at a distance: Having the son, and receiving him are notions of the same importance; and for trusting, relying with security, and betaking our selves to Christ for refuge, they are all involved in the receiving act: for as God offers him to us as the only prop of our hearts and hopes, so we receive hi o rely upon him: and as he is held forth in the Gospel as the only Asylum or City of refuge, so we take or receive him, and accordingly betake our souls to him for refuge.