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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.
Secondly, 'Tis the instrument of our justification, Rom. 5. 1. till Christ be received, (thus received by us) we are in our sins, under guilt and condemnation; but when faith comes, then comes freedom: by him all that believe are justified from all things, Acts 13. 38. Rom. 8. 1. for it apprehends or receives the pure and perfect righteousness of the Lord Jesus, wherein the soul how guilty and sinful soever it be in it self, ⟨p. 130⟩stands faultless and spotless before the presence of God: all 1obligations to punishment are upon believing immediately dissolved: a full and final pardon sealed. O precious faith, who can sufficiently value it!
Secondly, 'Tis the instrument of our justification, Rom. 5. 1. till Christ be received, (thus received by us) we are in our sins, under guilt and condemnation; but when faith comes, then comes freedome: by him all that believe are justified from all things, Acts 13. 38. Rom. 8. 1. for it apprehends or receives the pure and perfect righteousness of the Lord Jesus, wherein the soul how guilty and sinful soever it be in it self, ⟨p. 130⟩stands faultless and spotless before the presence of God: all 1obligations to punishment are upon believing immediately dissolved: a full and final pardon sealed. O precious faith, who can sufficiently value it!
- 1Inveniri in Christo tacitam habet relationem ad dei judicium; in iis nullam invenit condemnationem, quia justitiâ, qualem esse requirit (i. e.) perfectâ accumulatâ exornatos nos invenit; nempe justitia Christi per fidem nobis imputata. Bern. in Loc.