A39669:255
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.
Thirdly, the Mystical Union is an immediate Union: Immediate I say, not as excluding means and instruments, for 1several means and many instruments are employed for the effecting of it: but immediate as excluding degrees of nearness among the members of Christs mystical body.
Thirdly, the Mystical Union is an immediate Union: Immediate I say, not as excluding means and instruments, for 1several means and many instruments are employ'd for the effecting of it: but immediate as excluding degrees of nearness among the members of Christs mystical body.
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Every member in the Natural body stands not as near to the head as another: but so do all the mystical members of Christs body to him; every member, the smallest, as well as the greatest hath an immediate coalition with Christ. 1 Cor. 1. 2. To the Church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus; called to be Saints: with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs, and ours.
Among the factious in this Church at Corinth, those that said I am of Christ; as arrogating Christ to themselves; were as much a faction, as those that said I am of Paul, 1 Cor. 1. 30. to cure this he tells them, he is both theirs and ours. Such inclosures are against law.