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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 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.
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 indissolvable, 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.
- 1Eph. 6. 32.
Nor Lastly, That of the head and members united by one 1vital Spirit and so making one Physical body, mentioned Eph. 4. 15, 16. for though one soul actuates every member, yet it doth not knit every member alike near to the head, but some are nearer, and others removed farther from it; but here every member is alike nearly united with Christ the head, the weak are as near to him as the strong.