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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.
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If there be such a strict and inseparable Union betwixt Christ 1and believers, then the graces of believers can never totally fail: immortality is the privilege of grace, because sanctified persons are inseparably united to Christ the fountain of life: your life is bid with Christ in God, Coloss. 3. 3. Whilst the sap of life is in the root, the branches live by it: thus it is betwixt Christ and believers, Joh. 14. 19. because I live, ye shall live also: see how Christ binds up their life in one bundle with his own, plainly intimating it is as impossible for them to dye, as it is for himself, he cannot live without them.
If there be such a strict and inseparable Union betwixt Christ 1and believers, then the graces of believers can never totally fail: immortality is the priviledge of grace, because sanctified persons are inseparably united to Christ the fountain of life: your life is bid with Christ in God, Coloss. 3. 3. Whilst the sap of life is in the root, the branches live by it: thus it is betwixt Christ and believers, Joh. 14. 19. because I live, ye shall live also: see how Christ binds up their life in one bundle with his own, plainly intimating it is as impossible for them to dye, as it is for himself, he cannot live without them.