A39669:846
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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Thirdly, The wisdom of God is in Christ, 1 Cor. 1. 24. Christ the wisdom of God: yea, in him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, Col. 2. 3. Never did the wisdom of God display it self before the eyes of Angels and men as it hath done in Christ. The Angels desire to look into it, 1 Pet. 1. 12. yet they are not so much concerned in the project and design of this wisdom in redemption as you are.
Thirdly, The wisdome of God is in Christ, 1 Cor. 1. 24. Christ the wisdom of God: yea, in him are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge, Col. 2. 3. Never did the wisdome of God display it self before the eyes of Angels and men as it hath done in Christ. The Angels desire to look into it, 1 Pet. 1. 12. yet they are not so much concerned in the project and design of this wisdome in redemption as you are.
Fourthly, The fullness of the Spirit is in Christ: yea, it fills him so as it never did nor will fill any creature, Joh. 3. 34. God giveth not the Spirit by measure to him: all others have their limits, stints, and measures; some more, some less; but the Spirit is in Christ without measure. O h•w lovely and desirable are those men that have a large measure of the Spirit in them! but he is anointed with the Spirit of holiness above all his fellows, Psal. 45. 2, 7. Whatever grace is found in all the Saints which makes them desirable and lovely, wisdom in one, faith in another, patience in a third; they all Centre in Christ as the rivers do in the Sea: quae faciunt divisa beatum, in hoc mixta […].