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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
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.
But you ought to distinguish of the kinds and degrees of 1knowledge, and then you would see that your bewailed ignorance is no bar to your interest in Christ. There are two kinds of knowledge:
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1. Natural. 2. Spiritual.
There is a natural knowledge even of spiritual objects, a spark of nature blown up by an advantageous education, and though the objects of this knowledge be spiritual things, yet the light in which they are discerned is but a mere natural light.
There is a natural knowledge even of spiritual objects, a spark of nature blown up by an advantagious education, and though the objects of this knowledge be spiritual things, yet the light in which they are discerned is but a meer natural light.