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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.
That a saving interest in Christ may be regularly and strongly inferred and concluded from the mortification of the flesh, with 1its affections and lusts.
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This point is fully confirmed by those words of the Apostle, Rom. 6. 5, 6, 7, 8. […] if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed; that henceforth we should not serve sin; for he that is dead is freed from sin: now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
This point is fully confirmed by those words of the Apostle, Rom. 6. 5, 6, 7, 8. 〈…〉 if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed; that henceforth we should not serve sin; for he that is dead is freed from sin: now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
Mark the force of the Apostles reasoning: if we have been planted into the likeness of his death, viz. by the mortification of sin, which resembles or hath a likeness to the kind and manner of Christs death (as was noted above) then we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection; and why so, but because this mortification of sin is an undoubted evidence of the union of such a soul with Christ, which is the very ground-work and principle of that blessed and glorious