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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
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.
First, Thou in me: this is a glorious ineffable Union, and is fundamental to the other two: the Father is not only in Christ, in respect of dear affection, as one friend is in another who is as his own soul: nor only essentially, in respect of ⟨p. 26⟩the identity and sameness of nature and attributes; in which respect Christ is the express Image of his person, Heb. 1. 3. but he is in Christ also as Mediator, by communicating the fullness of the godhead which dwells in him as God-man, in a transcendent and singular manner; so as it never dwelt, nor can dwell in any other, Col. 2. 9.
First, Thou in me: this is a glorious ineffable Union, and is fundamental to the other two: the Father is not only in Christ, in respect of dear affection, as one friend is in another who is as his own soul: nor only essentially, in respect of ⟨p. 26⟩the identity and sameness of nature and attributes; in which respect Christ is the express Image of his person, Heb. 1. 3. but he is in Christ also as Mediator, by communicating the fulness of the godhead which dwells in him as God-man, in a transcendant and singular manner; so as it never dwelt, nor can dwell in any other, Col. 2. 9.
Secondly, I in them, here is the Mystical Union betwixt Christ and the Saints: q. d. thou and I are one essentially, they and I are one mystically: thou and I are one by the communication of the Godhead, and singular fullness of the Spirit to me as Mediator; and they and I are one, by my communication of the Spirit to them in measure.