A39669:243
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.
More particularly, we shall consider the properties of this 1Union, that so we may the better understand the nature of it. And here I shall open the nature of it both negatively, and affirmatively.
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First, Negatively, by removing all false notions and misapprehensions 1of it. And we say,
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First, The Saints Union with Christ is not a mere mental 1Union, only in conceit and notion, but really exists extra mentem, whether we conceit it or not. I know the atheistical world censures all these things as fancies, and idle imaginations; but believers know the reality of them. Joh. 14. 20. At that day you shall know that I am in my father, and you in me, and I in you. This doctrine is not fantastical, but scientifical.
First, The Saints Union with Christ is not a meer mental 1Union, only in conceit and notion, but really exists extra mentem, whether we conceit it or not. I know the atheistical world censures all these things as fancies, and idle imaginations; but believers know the reality of them.