A39669:303
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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Infer. 6.
If the Saints are so nearly united to Christ, as the members to 1the head; O then how great a sin, and full of danger is it for any to wrong and persecute the Saints! For in so doing, they must needs persecute Christ himself.
- 1Infer. 6.
Saul, Saul, (saith Christ) why persecutest thou me? Acts 19. 4. The righteous God holds himself obliged to vindicate oppressed innocency though it be in the person of a wicked man, how much more when it is in a member of Christ? He that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of mine eye, Zech. 2. 8. And is it to be imagined, that Christ will sit still, and suffer his enemies to thrust out the very Apples of his eyes? no, no, He hath ordained his arrows against the persecutors, Psal. 7. 13.
Saul, Saul, (saith Christ) why persecutest thou me?