A39669:1479
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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Inference 4.
Is Christ the Lord of Glory, How glorious then shall the Saints one day be, when they shall be made like this glorious 1Lord, and partake of his glory in Heaven, John 17. 22. the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them: yea, the vile bodies of Believers, shall be made like to the glorious body of Christ, Phil. 3. 21. What glory then will be communicated to their souls? True, his essential glory is incommunicable; but there is a glory, which Christ will communicate to his people, When he comes to judge the world, he will come to be glorified in his Saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, 2 Thes. 1. 10. Where he seemeth to account his social glory, which shall result from his Saints, a great part of his own glory: as we have now fellowship with him in his sufferings, so we shall have a fellowship or communion with him in his glory: when he shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory: then the poorest Believer shall be more glorious than Solomon in all his Royalty. It was a pious saying of Luther, that he had rather be Christianus Rusticus, quam Ethnicus ⟨p. 283⟩Alexander, a Christian Clown, than a Pagan Emperor; the righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: though he live next door to a graceless Nobleman: but it doth not yet appear what they shall be. The day will come, it will certainly come, for the Lord hath spoken it, when they shall shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father.