A39669:229
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.
Two things are necessary to be opened in the doctrinal part of this point.
1. The reality | of this Union. 2. The quality
First, For the reality of it, I shall make it appear that there is such a Union betwixt Christ and believers: it is no Ens rationis, ⟨p. 28⟩1empty notion, or cunningly devised fable; but a most certain demonstrable truth, which appears,
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First, From the Communion which is betwixt Christ and believers: in this the Apostle is express, 1 Joh. 1. 3. truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his son Jesus Christ: [Greek or Hebrew]. It signifies such fellowship or Copartnership as persons have by a joint interest in one and the same enjoyment, which is in common betwixt them. So