A39669:1622
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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Thirdly, How Christ the Beloved procures this benefit for 1Believers? And this he doth four ways.
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First, By the satisfaction of his blood, Rom. 5. 10. When we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son. No friendship without reconciliation, no reconciliation but by the blood of Christ: therefore the new and living way by which Believers come unto God with acceptance, is said to be consecrated for us through the veil of Christs flesh, and hence believers have boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, Heb. 10. 19, 20.
Secondly, The favour of God is procured for Believers, by their mystical union with Christ, whereby they are made members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones, Eph. 5. 30. So that look as Adams posterity stood upon the same terms that he their natural head did; so Believers Christs mystical members stand in the favour of God, by the favour which ⟨p. 316⟩Christ their spiritual head hath, John 17. 33. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.