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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, The Union I here speak of, is not a federal Union; or an Union by Covenant only: such a Union indeed 1there is betwixt Christ and believers, but that is consequential to and wholly dependent upon this.
Fourthly, The Union I here speak of, is not a foederal Union; or an Union by Covenant only: such a Union indeed 1there is betwixt Christ and believers, but that is consequential to and wholly dependent upon this.
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Fifthly, and Lastly, It is not a mere Moral Union by love and affection: thus we say, one soul is in two bodies, a friend 1is another self: the lover is in the person beloved: such a Union of hearts and affections there is also betwixt Christ and the Saints, but this is of another nature: that we call a Moral, this a Mystical Union: that only knits our affections, but this knits our persons to Christ.
Fifthly, and Lastly, It is not a meer Moral Union by love and affection: thus we say, one soul is in two bodies, a friend 1is another self: the lover is in the person beloved: such a Union of hearts and affections there is also betwixt Christ and the Saints, but this is of another nature: that we call a Moral, this a Mystical Union: that only knits our affections, but this knits our persons to Christ.
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