A39669:848
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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Fifthly, The righteousness of God is in Christ, by which only a poor guilty sinner can be justified before God. 2 Cor. 5. 21. we are made the righteousness of God in him: he is [Greek or Hebrew] the Lord our righteousness, Jer. 23. 6. (i. e.) the 1author of our righteousness, or the Lord who justifies us: by that name he shall be known and called by his people, than which none can be sweeter.
Fifthly, The righteousness of God is in Christ, by which only a poor guilty sinner can be justified before God. 2 Cor. 5. 21. we are made the righteousness of God in him: he is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the Lord our righteousness, Jer. 23. 6. (i. e.) the 1author of our righteousness, or the Lord who justifies us: by that name he shall be known and call'd by his people, than which none can be sweeter.
- 1(i. e.) Autorem justitiae nostrae. Calv. in Loc.
Sixthly, The love of God is in Christ: yea, the very yearning bowels of divine love are in him: what is Christ but the love of God wrapped up in flesh and blood? 1 Joh. 4. 9, 10. In this was manifested the love of God towards us, and herein is love ⟨p. 155⟩