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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.
Infer. 4.
If the right receiving of Jesus Christ be true saving and justifying faith, then those that have the least and lowest degree and measure 1of saving faith, have cause for ever to admire the bounty and riches of the grace of God to them therein.
- 1Infer. 4.
If you have received never so little of his bounty by the hand of providence in the good things of this life, yet if he have given you any measure of true saving faith, he hath dealt bountifully indeed with you: this mercy alone is enough to balance all other wants and inconveniences of this life. Poor in the world, rich in faith, James 2. 5. O let your hearts ⟨p. 143⟩take in the full sense of this bounty of God to you, say with the Apostle, Eph. 1. 3. blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: and you will in this one mercy find matter enough of praise and thanksgiving, wonder and admiration to your dying day, yea, to all eternity: for do but consider
If you have received never so little of his bounty by the hand of providence in the good things of this life, yet if he have given you any measure of true saving faith, he hath dealt bountifully indeed with you: this mercy alone is enough to ballance all other wants and inconveniencies of this life. Poor in the world, rich in faith,