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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
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.
Secondly, The Saints Union with Christ is not a Physical Union, such as is betwixt the members of a natural body and 1the head: our Nature indeed is assumed into Union with the person of Christ, but it is the singular honour of that blessed and holy flesh of Christ, to be so united, as to make one person with him: that Union is hypostatical, this only Mystical.
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Thirdly, Nor is it an Essential Union, or Union with the divine nature, so as our beings are thereby swallowed up and 1lost in the divine being.
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Some there be indeed that talk at that wild rate, of being Godded into God, and Christed into Christ: and those unwary expressions of Greg. Naz. [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew], do ⟨p. 32⟩but too much countenance those daring Spirits: but oh there is an infinite distance betwixt us and Christ in respect of nature and excellency notwithstanding this Union.
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