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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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Fourthly and Lastly, The way and manner in which the Saints shall be raised at the last day, proves this Mystical Union betwixt Christ and them: for they are not to be raised as others, by the naked power of God without them, but by ⟨p. 30⟩the virtue of Christs resurrection as their head, sending forth vital quickening influences into their dead bodies, which are united to him as well as their souls. For so we find it, Rom. 8. 11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you: he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you: even as it is in our awakening out of natural sleep, first the animal spirits in the head begin to rouse and play there, and then the senses and members are loosed throughout the whole body.
Fourthly and Lastly, The way and manner in which the Saints shall be raised at the last day, proves this Mystical Union betwixt Christ and them: for they are not to be raised as others, by the naked power of God without them, but by ⟨p. 30⟩the vertue of Christs resurrection as their head, sending forth vital quickening influences into their dead bodies, which are united to him as well as their souls. For so we find it, Rom. 8. 11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you: he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you: even as it is in our awakening out of natural sleep, first the animal spirits in the head begin to rouze and play there, and then the senses and members are loosed throughout the whole body.
Now it's impossible the Saints should be raised in the last resurrection, by the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them; if that Spirit did not knit and unite them to him, as members to their head. So then, by all this it is proved that there is a real Union of the Saints with Christ.