A39669:907
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.
In the explication of this point I shall speak to these four things, 1. What are those things in which Christ and believers have fellowship. 2. By what means they come to have such a fellowship with Christ. 3. How great a dignity this is to have fellowship with Jesus Christ. 4. And then apply the whole in divers practical inferences.
First, What are those things in which Christ and believers 1have fellowship: to which I must speak both negatively and positively.
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First, The Saints have no fellowship with Jesus Christ in 1those things that belong to him as God: such as his consubstantiality, coequality, and coeternity with the father: 'tis the blasphemy of the wicked Familists to talk of being Godded into God and Christed into Christ: neither men or Angels partake in these things, they are the proper and incommunicable 2glory of the Lord Jesus.
- 1Negatively.
- 2Justitia Christi fit nostra, non quoad universalem valoremsed particularem necessitatem, & imputatur nobis non ut causis salvationis, sed ut subjectis salvandis. Bradshaw de justificatione.