A39669:313
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.
First, The real Communication of Christs holiness to the soul: we cannot be United with this root, and not partake of the vital sap of sanctification from him: all that are planted into him, are planted into the likeness of his death and of his resurrection, Rom. 6. 5, 6. viz. by mortification, and vivification.
Secondly, They that are so nearly united to him as members to the head cannot but love him and value him above their own lives: as we see in nature, the hand and arm will interpose to save the head: the nearer the Union, the stronger always is the affection.
Thirdly, The members are subject to the head: Dominion in the head must needs infer subjection in the members, Eph. 5. 24. in vain do we claim Union with Christ as our head, ⟨p. 44⟩whilst we are governed by our own wills, and our Lusts give us law.