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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.
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.
Nor that of the graff and stock mentioned Rom. 6. 5. for 1thought it be there said that believers are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, implanted, or ingraffed 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 graff 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 ingraffed, is infinitely more excellent than they, and they are denominated from him.
Nor yet that Conjugal Union by marriage Covenant betwixt 1a man and his wife; for though this be exceeding dear and intimate, so that a man leaves father and mother, and cleaves to his wife, and they two become one flesh: yet this Union is not indissoluble, but may and must be broken by death; and then the relict lives alone without any Communion with, or relation to the person that was once so dear: but this betwixt Christ and the soul can never be dissolved by death, it abides to eternity.