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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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Next I shall endeavour to open the quality and nature of this Union: and show you what it is, according to the weak 1apprehensions we have of so sublime a Mystery: and this I shall do in a General | account of it. and Particular
Next I shall endeavour to open the quality and nature of this Union: and shew you what it is, according to the weak 1apprehensions we have of so sublime a Mystery: and this I shall do in a General | account of it. and Particular
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First, More generally, it is an intimate conjunction of believers to Christ by the imparting of his Spirit to them, whereby 1they are enabled to believe and live in him.
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All divine Spiritual life is originally in the Father, and cometh not to us but by, and through the son; Joh. 5. 26. to him hath the Father given to have an [Greek or Hebrew]—a quickening, enlivening power in himself: but the Son communicates this life which is in him to none but by and through the Spirit, Rom. 8. 2. the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the Law of sin and death.