A39669:975
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, The souls spiritual distress and burden, expressed in 1two very Emphatical words, [Greek or Hebrew], ye that labour and are heavy laden: the word which we translate labour signifies a labouring even to faintness and tiring, to the consumption and wast of the spirits: and the other word signifies such a pressure by a burden that is too heavy to be born that we do even sink down under it.
First, The souls spiritual distress and burthen, exprest in 1two very Emphatical words, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ye that labour and are heavy laden: the word which we translate labour signifies a labouring even to faintness and tiring, to the consumption and wast of the spirits: and the other word signifies such a pressure by a burden that is too heavy to be born that we do even sink down under it.
- 11. [Greek or Hebrew] qui laboratis, scil. ad defatigationem usque hac enim Emphasi differt Tò [Greek or Hebrew] à verbo [Greek or Hebrew] quod in genere significat laborare. Piscator in Loc. (i. e.) Qui sentitis •nus peccatorum & sub illo tant• non succumbitis. Chrysostomus intelligit oneratos legalib• oneribus, nos vero in genere intelligimus universos eos qui peccatorum pondere, naturaeque corruptae malitiâ quam sentiunt pressi, ad ejiciendam pravitatem & assequendam justitiam lucta t ur. Mu• callus in Loc.1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 qui laboratis, scil. ad defatigationem usque hac enim Emphasi differt Tò 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 à verbo 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 quod in genere significat laborare. Piscator in Loc. (i. e.) Qui sentitis •nus peccatorum & sub illo tant non succumbitis. Chrysostomus intelligit oneratos legalib oneribus, nos vero in genere intelligimus universos eos qui peccatorum pondere, naturaeque corruptae malitiâ quam sentiunt pressi, ad ejiciendam pravitatem & assequendam justitiam lucta t ur. Mu clus in Loc.