A39669:920
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.
Position 2.
Believers themselves have not an equal share one with another in all the benefits and privileges of their Union with Christ, but in 1some there is an equality, and in others an inequality: according to the measure and gift of Christ, to every one.
Believers themselves have not an equal share one with another in all the benefits and priviledges of their Union with Christ, but in 1some there is an equality, and in others an inequality: according to the measure and gift of Christ, to every one.
- 1Position 2.
In Justification they are all equal: the weak and the strong believer are alike justified, because it is one and the same perfect righteousness of Christ which is applied to the one and to the other, so that there are no different degrees of Justification, but all that believe are justified from all things, Acts 13. 39. and there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, Rom. 8. 1