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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.
Inference 1.
If there be such a Union betwixt Christ and believers, oh then what transcendent dignity hath God put upon believers!1
- 1Infer. 1. Si vis vir virtutis appellari, indue te Christum, qui est Dei virtus & sapientia; & in omnibus adjung• te domino, ita ut […] c• •o spiritus fias, & tunc vir virtutis essicieris. Orig. Hom. in Numb. 31.Infer. 1. Si vis vir virtutis appellari, indue te Christum, qui est Dei virtus & sapientia; & in omnibus adjung• te domino, ita ut 〈…〉 c• •o spiritus fias, & tunc vir virtutis essicieris. Orig. Hom. in Numb. 31.
Well might Constantine prefer the honour of being a member of the Church before that of being head of the Empire: for it is not only above all earthly dignities and honours; but in some respect above that honour which God hath put upon the Angels of glory.