A39669:916
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, Believers have communion with Christ in his death: they dye with him, Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ, (i. e.) the death of Christ hath a real killing and mortifying influence upon the lusts and corruptions of my heart and nature: true it is he died for sin one way, and we dye ⟨p. 170⟩to sin another way: he dyed to expiate it, we dye to it when we mortify it: the death of Christ is the death of sin in believers: and this is a very glorious privilege: for the death of sin is the life of your souls: if sin do not dye in you by mortification, you must dye for sin by eternal damnation: if Christ had not dyed, the Spirit of God by which you now mortify the deeds of the body, could not have been given unto you: then you must have lived Vassals to your sins, and dyed at last in your sins: but the fruit, efficacy and benefit of Christs death is yours, for the killing those sins in you which else had been your ruin.
Fourthly, Believers have communion with Christ in his death: they dye with him, Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ, (i. e.) the death of Christ hath a real killing and mortifying influence upon the lusts and corruptions of my heart and nature: true it is he died for sin one way, and we dye ⟨p. 170⟩to sin another way: he dyed to expiate it, we dye to it when we mortifie it: the death of Christ is the death of sin in believers: and this is a very glorious priviledge: for the death of sin is the life of your souls: if sin do not dye in you by mortification, you must dye for sin by eternal damnation: if Christ had not dyed, the Spirit of God by which you now mortifie the deeds of the body, could not have been given unto you: then you must have lived Vassals to your sins, and dyed at last in your sins: but the fruit, efficacy and benefit of Christs death is yours, for the killing those sins in you which else had been your ruine.