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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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Now these gracious habits being subjected and seated in the souls of poor imperfect creatures, whose corruptions abide and work in the very same faculties where grace hath its residence, it cannot be, that our Sanctification should be so perfect and complete, as our Justification is, which inheres only in Christ. See Gal. 5. 17. thus are righteousness and sanctification communicated and made ours: but then
Now these gracious habits being subjected and seated in the souls of poor imperfect creatures, whose corruptions abide and work in the very same faculties where grace hath its residence, it cannot be, that our Sanctification should be so perfect and compleat, as our Justification is, which inheres only in Christ. See Gal. 5. 17. thus are righteousness and sanctification communicated and made ours: but then
For Redemption, that is to say, absolute and plenary deliverance from all the sad remains, effects and consequents of Sin, both upon soul and body: this is made ours (or to keep to the terms) Christ is made redemption to us, by glorification: then and not before are these miserable effects removed: we put off these together with the body. So that look as Justification cures the guilt of Sin, and Sanctification the dominion and power of Sin: so glorification removes together with its existence and being, all those miseries which it let in (as at a floodgate) upon our whole man. Eph. 5. 26, 27.
And thus of God Christ is made unto us wisdom and righteousness, sanctification, and redemption: namely by imputation, regeneration, and glorification.