A39669:2176
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.
The 1. Subject. 2. Predicate.
First, The Subject of the proposition, they that are Christs, 1viz. true Christians, real members of Christ: such as truly 2belong to Christ, such as have given themselves up to be governed by him, and are indeed acted by his Spirit: such, all such persons (for the indefinite is equipollent to a universal) all such, and none but such.
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- 2Vere Christiani qui ad Christum pertinent, qui se ei ded• regend•s. Pol. Synopsis.
Secondly, The predicate, the• •ve crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts: by flesh […] are here to understand carnal 1concupiscence, the workings and motions of corrupt nature: and by the affections we are to understand not the natural but the inordinate affections: for Christ doth not abolish and destroy, but correct and regulate the affections of those that are in him: and by crucifying the flesh we are not to understand the total extinction, or perfect subduing of corrupt nature, but only the deposing of corruption from its regency and dominion in the soul: its dominion is taken away, though its life be prolonged for a season: but yet as death surely, though slowly follows crucifixion (the life of crucified persons gradually departing from them with their blood) so it is, just so in the mortification of sin, and therefore