A39669:734
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.
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
That First, It doth not justify in the Popish sense, upon the account of its own proper worth and dignity: for then
That First, It doth not justifie in the Popish sense, upon the account of its own proper worth and dignity: for then
First, Justification should be of debt, not of grace; contrary to Rom. 3. 23, 24.