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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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Fifthly, and Lastly, The last and principal thing included in our receiving of Christ, is the respect that this act of acceptance hath, unto the terms upon which Christ is tendered to us in the Gospel, to which it is most agreeable, 1 Cor. 15. 11. so we preach, and so ye believed: faith answers the Gospel offer 1as the impress upon the wax doth the engravings in the Seal: and this is of principal consideration, for there is no receiving Christ upon any other terms but his own, proposed in the Gospel to us: he will never come lower, nor make them easier than they are, for any mans sake in the world: we must either receive him upon these, or part with him for ever as thousands do, who could be content to agree to some Articles, but rather choose to be damned for ever, than submit to all: this is the great controversy betwixt Christ and sinners: upon this many thousands break off the Treaty, and part with Christ; because he will not come to their terms: but every true believer receives him upon his own, (i. e.) their acceptance of him by faith is in all things consentaneous to the overtures made of him in the written word. So he tenders himself, and so they receive ⟨p. 122⟩him; as will be evident in the following particulars.
Fifthly, and Lastly, The last and principal thing included in our receiving of Christ, is the respect that this act of acceptance hath, unto the terms upon which Christ is tendred to us in the Gospel, to which it is most agreeable, 1 Cor. 15. 11. so we preach, and so ye believed: faith answers the Gospel offer 1as the impress upon the wax doth the engravings in the Seal: and this is of principal consideration, for there is no receiving Christ upon any other terms but his own, proposed in the Gospel to us: he will never come lower, nor make them easier than they are, for any mans sake in the world: we must either receive him upon these, or part with him for ever as thousands do, who could be content to agree to some Articles, but rather choose to be damned for ever, than submit to all: this is the great controversie betwixt Christ and sinners: upon this many thousands break off the Treaty, and part with Christ; because he will not come to their terms: but every true believer receives him upon his own, (i. e.) their acceptance of him by faith is in all things consentaneous to the overtures made of him in the written word. So he tenders himself, and so they receive