A39669:733
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.
And I find four opinions about the interest of faith in our Justification: some will have it to justify us formally, not relatively: (i. e.) upon the account of its own intrinsical value and worth, and this is the Popish sense of Justification by faith. Some affirm that though faith be not our perfect legal righteousness considered as a work of ours, yet the act of believing is imputed to us for righteousness (i. e.) God graciously accepts it instead of perfect legal righteousness, and so in his esteem it's our evangelical righteousness. And this is the Arminian sense of justification by faith.
And I find four opinions about the interest of faith in our Justification: some will have it to justifie us formally, not relatively: (i. e.) upon the account of its own intrinsecal value and worth, and this is the Popish sense of Justification by faith. Some affirm that though faith be not our perfect legal righteousness considered as a work of ours, yet the act of believing is imputed to us for righteousness (i. e.) God graciously accepts it instead of perfect legal righteousness, and so in his esteem it's our evangelical righteousness. And this is the Arminian sense of justification by faith.
Some there are also even among our reformed Divines that contend that faith justifies and saves us as it is the Condition of the new Covenant. And Lastly, others will have it to justify us as an Instrument apprehending or receiving the righteousness of Christ; with which opinion I must close: when I consider my Text calls it a receiving of Christ: most certain it is
Some there are also even among our reformed Divines that contend that faith justifies and saves us as it is the Condition of the new Covenant. And Lastly, others will have it to justifie us as an Instrument apprehending or receiving the righteousness of Christ; with which opinion I must close: when I consider my Text calls it a receiving of Christ: most certain it is