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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.
Seventhly, It is an honourable Union, *yea the highest honour 2that can be done unto men: the greatest honour that ⟨p. 35⟩was ever done to our common nature, was by its assumption into Unity with the second person hypostatically, and the highest honour that was ever done to our single persons was their Union with Christ mystically. To be a servant of Christ is a dignity transcendent to the highest advancement among men; but to be a member of Christ, how matchless and singular is the glory thereof! and yet such honour have all the Saints, Eph. 5. 30. we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
- *Apex, cap•t, & vertex •obilitatis est Christus, sine quo nibil est i• toto ho• sublunary orb terraru• nobile, cujus solium est coelum, & cujus scabellu• est terra; terra •nquam, in qua h•rum omnis cognatio & nobilitas sita-est & collocata, divinis illius pedibus substernitur. Laurent. Hum•redus de no•ilitate lib. 2. p. 176.Apex, cap•t, & vertex •obilitatis est Christus, sine quo nibil est i• toto ho• sublunari orbe terraru• nobile, cujus solium est coelum, & cujus scabellu• est terra; terra nquam, in qua hrum omnis cognatio & nobilitas sita-est & collocata, divinis illius pedibus substernitur. Laurent. Humredus de noilitate lib. 2. p. 176.