A39669:225
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.
Not that of two pieces united by glue, 1 Cor. 6. 17. he that 1is joined to the Lord is one Spirit: [Greek or Hebrew], glued to the Lord. For though this cementeth, and strongly joins them in one; yet this is but a faint and imperfect shadow of our Union with Christ: for though this Union by glue be intimate, yet it is not vital; but so is that of the soul with Christ.
Not that of two pieces united by glew, 1 Cor. 6. 17. he that 1is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, glewed to the Lord. For though this cementeth, and strongly joyns them in one; yet this is but a faint and imperfect shadow of our Union with Christ: for though this Union by glew be intimate, yet it is not vital; but so is that of the soul with Christ.
Nor that of the graft and stock mentioned Rom. 6. 5. for 1thought it be there said that believers are [Greek or Hebrew], implanted, or engrafted by way of incision, and this Union betwixt it and the stock be vital; for it partakes of the vital sap and juice of it; yet here also is a remarkable defect, for the graft is of a more excellent kind and nature than the stock, and upon that account the tree receives its denomination from it, as from the more noble and excellent part; but Christ into whom believers are engrafted, is infinitely more excellent than they, and they are denominated from him.