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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
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Thirdly, The benefits we are partakers of in and with the Lord Jesus Christ: and indeed they are wonderful and astonishing things, so far as they do already appear, but yet we see but little of them, comparatively to what we shall see, 1 Joh. 3. 1, 2. Now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. O what will that be! to see him as he is, and to be transformed into his likeness.
Fourthly, The way and manner in which we are brought into this fellowship with Christ, which is yet more admirable. The Apostle gives us a strange account of it in 2 Cor. 8. 9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through •is poverty might be rich: he empties himself of his glory, that we might be filled: he is made a curse, that we might enjoy the blessing: he submits to be crowned with thorns, that we might be crowned with glory and honour: he puts himself into the number of worms, Psal. 22. 6. that we might be made equal to the Angels; O the unconceivable grace of Christ!
Fourthly, The way and manner in which we are brought into this fellowship with Christ, which is yet more admirable. The Apostle gives us a strange account of it in 2 Cor. 8. 9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through •is poverty might be rich: he empties himself of his glory, that we might be fill'd: he is made a curse, that we might enjoy the blessing: he submits to be crown'd with thorns, that we might be crowned with glory and honour: he puts himself into the number of worms,