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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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But Thirdly, It is the spring of our spiritual peace and joy; and that as it is the Instrument of our Justification. If it be an instrument of our Justification, it cannot but be the spring of our consolation. Rom. 5. 1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God: in uniting us with Christ, and apprehending and applying his righteousness to ⟨p. 131⟩us, it becomes the seed or root of all the peace and joy of a Christians life. Joy the child of faith therefore bears its name, Phil. 1. 25. the joy of faith. So 1 Pet. 1. 8, 9. Believing we rejoice with joy unspeakable: we cannot forbear laughing when we are tickled, nor can we forbear rejoicing while by faith we are brought to the sight and knowledge of such a privileged state: when faith hath first given, and then cleared our title to Christ, Joy is no more under the souls command: we cannot but rejoice, and that with Joy unspeakable.
But Thirdly, It is the spring of our spiritual peace and joy; and that as it is the Instrument of our Justification. If it be an instrument of our Justification, it cannot but be the spring of our consolation. Rom. 5. 1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God: in uniting us with Christ, and apprehending and applying his righteousness to ⟨p. 131⟩us, it becomes the seed or root of all the peace and joy of a Christians life. Joy the child of faith therefore bears its name, Phil. 1. 25. the joy of faith. So 1 Pet. 1. 8, 9. Believing we rejoyce with joy unspeakable: we cannot forbear laughing when we are tickled, nor can we forbear rejoycing while by faith we are brought to the sight and knowledge of such a priviledged state: when faith hath first given, and then cleared our title to Christ, Joy is no more under the souls command: we cannot but rejoyce, and that with Joy unspeakable.