A39669:724
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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What shall I say of Faith? 'tis the bond of Union, the instrument of justification, the spring of spiritual peace and joy, the means of spiritual livelihood and subsistence: and therefore the great scope and drift of the Gospel, which aims at and presseth nothing more than to bring men and women to believe.
First, This is the bond of our Union with Christ: that Union is begun in our vivification, and completed in our actual receiving of Christ: the first is a bond of Union on the Spirits part, the second, a bond of Union on our part. Christ dwelleth in our hearts by faith, Eph. 3. 17. and herein it is a door opened to let in many rich blessings to the soul: for by uniting us to Christ, it brings us into special favour and acceptation with God, Eph. 1. 6. makes us the special objects of Christs conjugal love and delight, Eph. 5. 29. draws from his heart sympathy and tender sense of all our miseries and burdens, Heb. 4. 15.
First, This is the bond of our Union with Christ: that Union is begun in our vivification, and compleated in our actual receiving of Christ: the first is a bond of Union on the Spirits part, the second, a bond of Union on our part. Christ dwelleth in our hearts by faith, Eph. 3. 17. and herein it is a door opened to let in many rich blessings to the soul: for by uniting us to Christ, it brings us into special favour and acceptation with God, Eph. 1. 6. makes us the special objects of Christs conjugal love and delight, Eph. 5. 29. draws from his heart sympathy and tender sense of all our miseries and burdens,