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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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Fourthly, The fullness of the Spirit is in Christ: yea, it fills him so as it never did nor will fill any creature, Joh. 3. 34. God giveth not the Spirit by measure to him: all others have their limits, stints, and measures; some more, some less; but the Spirit is in Christ without measure. O h•w lovely and desirable are those men that have a large measure of the Spirit in them! but he is anointed with the Spirit of holiness above all his fellows, Psal. 45. 2, 7. Whatever grace is found in all the Saints which makes them desirable and lovely, wisdom in one, faith in another, patience in a third; they all Centre in Christ as the rivers do in the Sea: quae faciunt divisa beatum, in hoc mixta […].
Fourthly, The fulness of the Spirit is in Christ: yea, it fills him so as it never did nor will fill any creature, Joh. 3. 34. God giveth not the Spirit by measure to him: all others have their limits, stints, and measures; some more, some less; but the Spirit is in Christ without measure. O h•w lovely and desirable are those men that have a large measure of the Spirit in them! but he is anointed with the Spirit of holiness above all his fellows, Psal. 45. 2, 7. Whatever grace is found in all the Saints which makes them desirable and lovely, wisdome in one, faith in another, patience in a third; they all Centre in Christ as the rivers do in the Sea: quae faciunt divisa beatum, in hoc mixta 〈…〉.
Fifthly, The righteousness of God is in Christ, by which only a poor guilty sinner can be justified before God. 2 Cor. 5. 21. we are made the righteousness of God in him: he is [Greek or Hebrew] the Lord our righteousness,