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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
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Secondly, The reality of the believers Union with Christ is evident from the Imputation of Christs righteousness to him for his Justification. That a believer is justified before God by a righteousness without himself is undeniable from Rom. 3. 24. being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: and that Christs righteousness becomes ours by Imputation, is as clear from Rom. 4. 23, 24. but it can never be imputed to us, except we be united to him, and become one with him: which is also plainly asserted in 1 Con. 1. 30. But of him are ye (in Christ Jesus) who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, sanctification and redemption: he communicates his merits unto none but those that are in him: hence all those vain cavils of the Papists disputing against our Justification by the righteousness of Christ, and asserting it to be by inherent righteousness, are solidly answered.
Secondly, The reality of the believers Union with Christ is evident from the Imputation of Christs righteousness to him for his Justification. That a believer is justified before God by a righteousness without himself is undeniable from Rom. 3. 24. being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: and that Christs righteousness becomes ours by Imputation, is as clear from Rom. 4. 23, 24. but it can never be imputed to us, except we be united to him, and become one with him: which is also plainly asserted in 1 Con. 1. 30. But of him are ye (in Christ Jesus) who of God is made unto us wisdome, and righteousness, sanctification and redemption: he communicates his merits unto none but those that are in him: hence all those vain cavils of the Papists disputing against our Justification by the righteousness of Christ, and asserting it to be by inherent righteousness, are solidly answered.