A39669:735
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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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.
Secondly, This would frustrate the very scope and end of the death of Christ; for if righteousness come by the Law, (i. e.) by the way of works and desert, then is Christ dead in vain, Gal. 2. 21.
Thirdly, Then the way of our justification by faith would be so far from excluding, that it would establish boasting, expressly contrary to the Apostle, Rom. 3. 26, 27.
Thirdly, Then the way of our justification by faith would be so sar from excluding, that it would establish boasting, expressly contrary to the Apostle,