A39669:918
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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Position 1.
First, No man hath fellowship with Christ in any special saving 1privilege by nature, howsoever it be cultivated or improved; but only by faith uniting him to the Lord Jesus Christ: 'tis not the privilege of our first, but second birth. This is plain from Joh. 1. 12, 13. But to as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to as many as believed on his name, who are born not of flesh, nor of blood, nor of the will of man but of God. We are by nature children of wrath, Eph. 2. 3. we have fellowship with Satan in sin, and misery: the wild branch hath no communication of the sweetness and fatness of a more noble and excellent root, until it be engrafted upon it, and have immediate Union and coalition with it, Joh. 15. 1, 2.
First, No man hath fellowship with Christ in any special saving 1priviledge by nature, howsoever it be cultivated or improved; but only by faith uniting him to the Lord Jesus Christ: 'tis not the priviledge of our first, but second birth. This is plain from Joh. 1. 12, 13. But to as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to as many as believed on his name, who are born not of flesh, nor of blood, nor of the will of man but of God. We are by nature children of wrath,