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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.
First, The Gospel offers Christ to us sincerely and really, and so the true believer receives and accepts him: even with 1a faith unfeigned, 1 Tim. 1. 5. If ever the soul be serious and in earnest in any thing, it it so in this: can we suppose the heart of him that flies for his life to the refuge City, to be serious and in earnest to escape by flight the Avenger of blood who pursues him, then is the heart of a convinced sinner serious in this matter; for under that notion is the work of faith presented to us, Heb. 6. 18.
First, The Gospel offers Christ to us sincerely and really, and so the true believer receives and accepts him: even with 1a faith unfeigned, 1 Tim. 1. 5. If ever the soul be serious and in earnest in any thing, it it so in this: can we suppose the heart of him that flys for his life to the refuge City, to be serious and in earnest to escape by flight the Avenger of blood who pursues him, then is the heart of a convinced sinner serious in this matter; for under that notion is the work of faith presented to us, Heb. 6. 18.
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Secondly, Christ is offered to us in the Gospel entirely and undividedly, as clothed with all his offices, Priestly, Prophetical, 1and Regal: as Christ Jesus the Lord,