A39669:259
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.
Fifthly, The Mystical Union is a most Efficacious Union, for through this Union the divine power flows into our 1souls; both to quicken us with the life of Christ, and to conserve and secure that life in us after it is so infused.
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Without the Unition of the soul to Christ, which is to be conceived efficiently as the Spirits act, there can be no Union formally considered; and without these, no communications of life from Christ to us. Eph. 4. 16. And when there is that [Greek or Hebrew] or effectual working of the spirit of life in every part, which he there speaks of, (as who should say, the first bubblings up of the new life, a spiritual vitality diffused through the soul which ere while was dead in sin) yet still this Union with Christ is as necessary to the maintaining, as before it was to the producing of it.
Without the Unition of the soul to Christ, which is to be conceived efficiently as the Spirits act, there can be no Union formally considered; and without these, no communications of life from Christ to us. Eph. 4. 16. And when there is that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or effectual working of the spirit of life in every part, which he there speaks of, (as who should say, the first bublings up of the new life, a spiritual vitality diffused through the soul which ere while was dead in sin) yet still this Union with Christ is as necessary to the maintaining, as before it was to the producing of it.