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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.
Infer. 7.
If there be such a Union betwixt Christ and the Saints as hath been described, upon what comfortable terms then, may believers 1part with their bodies at Death!
- 1Infer. 7.
Christ your head is above water, therefore you cannot be lost: nay, he is not only risen from the dead himself, but 1is also become the first-fruits of them that sleep, 1 Cor. 15. 20. Believers are his members, his fullness, he cannot therefore be complete without you: a part of Christ cannot perish in the grave, much less burn in hell: remember when you feel the Natural Union dissolving, that this Mystical Union can never be dissolved: the pangs of death cannot break this tie: as there is a peculiar excellency in the believers life, so there is a singular support and peculiar comfort in his death, to me to live is Christ, and to dye is gain, Phil. 1. 21.
Christ your head is above water, therefore you cannot be lost: nay, he is not only risen from the dead himself, but 1