A39669:890
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.
Viz. First, The Saints dignity, and Secondly, Christs preeminency.
First, The Saints dignity which consists in this, that they are Christs fellows, the Hebrew word—[Greek or Hebrew] is very full and 1copious, and is translated consorts, companions, copartners, partakers, or as ours reads it, fellows, (i. e.) such as are partakers with him in the anointing of the Spirit: who do 2in their measure receive the same Spirit, every Christian being anointed, modo sibi proportionato, with the same grace, and dignified with the same titles. 1 Joh. 2. 27. Rev. 1. 6. Christ and the Saints are in common one with another: doth the Spirit of holiness dwell in him? so it doth in them too: is Christ King and Priest? why, so are they too by the grace of Union with him. He hath made us Kings and Priests to God, and his Father. This is the Saints dignity to be Christs fellows, consorts, or copartners: So that look whatever grace or spiritual excellency is in Christ, it is not impropriated to himself, but they do share with him; for indeed he was filled with the fullness of the Spirit for their sakes and use: as the Sun is filled with light not to shine to it self, but to others; so is Christ with grace: and therefore some translate the Text not pr• consortibus, above thy fellows, but propter consortes, for thy 3fellows: making Christ the first receptacle of all grace, who ⟨p. 164⟩first and immediately is filled from the fountain the Godhead, but it is for his people who receive and derive from him according to their proportion.