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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
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Is the Union so intimate betwixt Christ and believers? how great 1and powerful a motive then is this, to make us open-handed and liberal in relieving the necessities and wants of every gracious person! for in relieving them we relieve Christ himself.
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Christ personal is not the object of our pity and charity, 1he is at the fountain head of all the riches in glory; Eph. 4. v. 10. but Christ mystical is exposed to necessities and wants, he feels hunger and thirst, cold and pains in his body the Church: and he is refreshed, relieved and comforted in their refreshments and comforts: Christ the Lord of heaven and earth in this consideration is sometimes in need of a penny; he tells us his wants and poverty, and how he is relieved, Mat. 25. 35, 40. A Text believed and understood by very few, I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Then shall the righteous answer, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, &c. And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.