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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.
Sixthly, The Mystical Union is an indissoluble Union: there is an everlasting tie betwixt Christ and the believer: and herein also it is beyond all other Unions in the world: death dissolves the dear Union betwixt the husband and wife, friend and friend, yea betwixt soul and body; but not betwixt Christ and the soul: the bands of this Union rot not in the grave: what shall separate us from the love of Christ? saith the Apostle Rom. 8. 35, 38, 39. he bids defiance to all enemies, and triumphs in the firmness of this Union over all hazards that seem to threaten it. It is with Christ and us in respect of the Mystical Union, as it was with Christ himself in respect of the hypostatical Union: that was not dissolved by his death when the Natural Union betwixt his soul and body was; nor can this mystical Union of our souls and bodies with Christ be dissolved when the Unions betwixt us and our dearest relations, yea betwixt the soul and body are dissolved by death. God▪ calls himself the God of Abraham, long after his body was turned into dust.
Sixthly, The Mystical Union is an indissoluble Union: there is an everlasting tye betwixt Christ and the believer: and herein also it is beyond all other Unions in the world: death dissolves the dear Union betwixt the husband and wife, friend and friend, yea betwixt soul and body; but not betwixt Christ and the soul: the bands of this Union rot not in the grave: what shall separate us from the love of Christ? saith the Apostle Rom. 8. 35, 38, 39. he bids defiance to all enemies, and triumphs in the firmness of this Union over all hazards that seem to threaten it. It is with Christ and us in respect of the Mystical Union, as it was with Christ himself in respect of the hypostatical Union: that was not dissolved by his death when the Natural Union betwixt his soul and body was; nor can this mystical Union of our souls and bodies with Christ be dissolved when the Unions betwixt us and our dearest relations, yea betwixt the soul and body are dissolved by death. God▪ calls himself the God of Abraham, long after his body was turned into dust.