A39669:741
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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Secondly, And it is as evident it doth not justify us in the Arminian sense, viz. as the [Greek or Hebrew] credere, the Act of believing is ⟨p. 133⟩imputed, or accepted by God as our Evangelical righteousness, instead of perfect legal righteousness. In the former opinion you have the dregs of Popery, and here you have refined Popery. Let all Arminians know we have as high esteem for faith as any men in the world can have, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith: we cannot embrace their opinion, because
Secondly, And it is as evident it doth not justifie us in the Arminian sense, viz. as the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 credere, the Act of believing is ⟨p. 133⟩imputed, or accepted by God as our Evangelical righteousness, instead of perfect legal righteousness. In the former opinion you have the dreggs of Popery, and here you have refined Popery. Let all Arminians know we have as high esteem for faith as any men in the world can have, but yet we will not rob Christ to cloath faith: we cannot embrace their opinion, because
First, We must then dethrone Christ, to exalt faith: we are willing to give it all that is due to it, but we dare not despoil Christ of his glory for faiths sake: he is the Lord our righteousness, Jer. 23. we dare not set the servant above the master: we acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us: his blood, not our faith, his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.
First, We must then dethrone Christ, to exalt faith: we are willing to give it all that is due to it, but we dare not despoyl Christ of his glory for faiths sake: he is the Lord our righteousness,