A39669:927
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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Position 4.
That Jesus Christ imparts to all believers all the spiritual 1blessings that he is filled with, and with-holds none from any that have Union with him: be these blessings never so great, or they that receive them never so weak, mean, and contemptible in outward respects. Gal. 3. 27. Ye are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ. The salvation that comes by Christ is styled the common salvation, Jude 3. and heaven the inheritance of the Saints in light, Col. 1. 12. There is neither Greek nor Jew (saith the Apostle) Circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond or free; but Christ is all and in all, Col. 3. 11. he means, there is no privilege in the one ⟨p. 173⟩to commend them to God, and no want of any thing in the other to debar them from God: let men have or want outward excellencies, as beauty, honour, riches, nobility, gifts of the mind, sweetness of nature, and all such like ornaments: what is that to God? he looks not at these things, but respects them, and communicates his favour to them as they are in Christ: he is all, and in all. The gifts and blessings of the Spirit are given to men as they are in Christ, and without respect to any external differences made in this world among men: hence we find excellent treasures of grace in mean and contemptible persons in the world: poor in the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom: and as all believers without difference receive from Christ, so they are not debarred from any blessing that is in Christ: all is yours, for ye are Christs,