A39669:947
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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Inference 5.
How securely is the Saints inheritance settled upon them, seeing they are in commons with Jesus Christ? Christ and his Saints 1are joint-heirs, and the inheritance cannot be alienated but by his consent, he must lose his interest, if you lose yours: indeed Adams inheritance was by a single title, and moreover, it was in his own hand, and so he might, (as indeed he soon did) devest himself and his posterity of it: but it is not so betwixt Christ and believers, we are secured in our inheritance by Christ our co-heir, who will never alienate it: and therefore it was truly observed by the Father, Foelicior Job in sterquilinio, quam Adamus in Paradiso: Job was happier upon the Dunghill, than Adam was in Paradise. The covenant of grace is certainly the best tenure: as it hath the best mercies, so it gives the fullest security to enjoy them.
How securely is the Saints inheritance settled upon them, seeing they are in commons with Jesus Christ? Christ and his Saints 1are joynt-heirs, and the inheritance cannot be alienated but by his consent, he must lose his interest, if you lose yours: indeed Adams inheritance was by a single title, and moreover, it was in his own hand, and so he might, (as indeed he soon did) devest himself and his posterity of it: but it is not so betwixt Christ and believers, we are secured in our inheritance by Christ our co-heir, who will never alienate it: and therefore it was truly observed by the Father, Foelicior Job in sterquilinio, quam Adamus in Paradiso: Job was happier upon the Dunghil, than Adam was in Paradise. The covenant of grace is certainly the best tenure: as it hath the best mercies, so it gives the fullest security to enjoy them.
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