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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.
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That all true believers have a real communion or fellowship with 1the Lord Jesus Christ.
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From the Saints Union with Christ, there doth naturally and immediately result a most sweet and blessed communion or fellowship with him in graces and spiritual privileges, Eph. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places (or things) in Christ: in giving us his Son, he freely gives us all things, Rom. 8. 32. so in 1 Cor. 1. 30. of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption: and once more, 1 Cor. 3. 22, 23. all are yours, and ye are Christs: what Christ is and hath is theirs by communication to them, or improvement for them: and this is very evidently carried in all those excellent Scripture metaphors by which our Union with Christ is figured and shadowed