A39669:829
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.
First, Evangelical meltings, and ingenuous thawings of the heart under the apprehensions of grace and mercy: Zech. 12. 10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and shall mourn.
Secondly, Love to Christ, his ways and people. Gal. 5. 6. Faith worketh by love, (i. e.) it represents the love of God, and then makes use of the sweetness of it by way of argument to constrain the soul to all acts of obedience, wherein it may testify the reality of its love to God and Christ.
Secondly, Love to Christ, his ways and people. Gal. 5. 6. Faith worketh by love, (i. e.) it represents the love of God, and then makes use of the sweetness of it by way of argument to constrain the soul to all acts of obedience, wherein it may testifie the reality of its love to God and Christ.
Thirdly, Heart purity, Acts 15. 9. purifying their hearts by faith: it doth not only cleanse the hands but the heart: no principle in man besides faith can do this: morality may hide corruption, but faith only purifies the heart from it.