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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.
Secondly, The least degree of saving faith brings the soul into a state of perfect and full Justification. For if it receives Jesus Christ, it must therefore needs in him, and with him receive a free, full, and final pardon of sin: the least measure of faith receives remission for the greatest sins. By him all that believe are justified from all things, Acts 13. 39. it unites thy soul with Christ, and then as the necessary consequent of that Union, there is no condemnation, Rom. 8. 1. [Greek or Hebrew] not one condemnation, how many soever our sins have been.
Secondly, The least degree of saving faith brings the soul into a state of perfect and full Justification. For if it receives Jesus Christ, it must therefore needs in him, and with him receive a free, full, and final pardon of sin: the least measure of faith receives remission for the greatest sins. By him all that believe are justified from all things, Acts 13. 39. it unites thy soul with Christ, and then as the necessary consequent of that Union, there is no condemnation, Rom. 8. 1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 not one condemnation, how many soever our sins have been.
Thirdly, The least measure or degree of saving faith is a greater mercy than God hath bestowed, or ever will bestow ⟨p. 144⟩upon many that are far above you in outward respects: all men have not faith: nay 'tis but a remnant among men that believe. Few of the Nobles and Potentates of the world have such a gift as this: they have houses and lands, yea, Crowns and Sceptres, but no Faith, no Christ, no pardon: they have authority to rule over men, but no authority to become the sons of God,