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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.
Eighthly, It is a most Comfortable Union: yea, the ground 1of all solid comfort both in life and death: whatever troubles, wants, or distresses befall such, in this is abundant relief and support. Christ is mine, and I am his; what may not a soul make out of that! If I am Christs, then let him take care for me, and indeed in so doing, he doth but care for his own: he is my head, and to him it belongs to consult the safety and welfare of his own members: Eph. 1. 22, 23. he is not only an head to his own by way of Influence, but to all things else by way of dominion, for their good: how comfortably may we repose our selves under that cheering consideration upon him at all times, and in all difficult cases!
Eighthly, It is a most Comfortable Union: yea, the ground 1of all solid comfort both in life and death: whatever troubles, wants, or distresses befal such, in this is abundant relief and support. Christ is mine, and I am his; what may not a soul make out of that! If I am Christs, then let him take care for me, and indeed in so doing, he doth but care for his own: he is my head, and to him it belongs to consult the safety and welfare of his own members: Eph. 1. 22, 23. he is not only an head to his own by way of Influence, but to all things else by way of dominion, for their good: how comfortably may we repose our selves under that cheering consideration upon him at all times, and in all difficult cases!
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Ninthly, It is a fruitful Union: the immediate end of it is 1fruit: