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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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But more particularly, let us consider the glory of Christ, as it is distinguished into his either, 1. Essential | Glory. 2. Mediatorial
First, The Essential Glory of Christ which he hath as God 1from everlasting; which is unspeakable and unconceivable glory: for (saith the Apostle) Phil. 2. 6. He being in the ⟨p. 279⟩form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God (i. e.) he had a Peerage, or equality with his Father in glory, Joh. 10. 30. I and my Father are one: and again, Joh. 16. 15. All things that the Father hath, are mine: the same name, the same nature, the same essential properties, the same will, and the same glory.
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Secondly, The Mediatorial glory of Christ is exceeding 1great: this is proper to him, as head of the Church, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Of this glory the Apostle speaks, Phil. 2. 9, 10. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name, which is above every name, &c. [Greek or Hebrew] exalted above all exaltation. Now the mediatorial glory of our Lord Jesus Christ consisteth either, 1. In the fullness of Grace inherent in him. 2. Or in the Dignity and Authority put upon him.