A39669:952
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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Infer. 7.
What delight and singular advantage must needs be in the communion of the Saints, who have communion with Jesus Christ in all 1his graces and benefits!
- 1Infer. 7.
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ, 1 Joh. 1. 3. O 'tis sweet to have fellowship with those that have fellowship with God in Jesus Christ. Christ hath communicated to the Saints varieties of graces in different measures and degrees: and as they all receive from Christ the fountain, so it's sweet and most delightful to be improving themselves by spiritual communion one with another: yea, for that end one is furnished with one grace more eminently than another, that the weak may be assisted by the strong: as a Modern Divine well observes: Athanasius was prudent and active, Basil of an heavenly 1sweet temper, Chrysostom laborious without affectation, Ambrose resolved and grave, Luther courageous, and Calvin acute and judicious: thus every one hath his proper gift from Christ, the fountain of gifts and graces, 1 Cor. 7. 7