A39669:2023
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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Rule 5.
All the motions and operations of the spirit are always harmonical and suitable to the written word: Isa. 8. 20. To the Law, and to the Testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. The Scriptures are by the inspiration of the spirit, therefore his inspirations into the hearts of believers must either substantially agree with the Scriptures, or the inspirations of the spirit be self-repugnant, and contradictory to one another. It is very observable that the works of grace wrought by the spirit in the hearts of believers are represented to us in Scripture as a transcript or copy of the written word: Jer. 31. 33. I will write my Law in their hearts. Now as a true copy answers the original, word for word, letter for letter, point for point; so do the works of the spirit in our souls harmonize with the dictates of the spirit in the Scriptures: whatsoever motion therefore shall be found repugnant thereunto, must not be fathered upon the spirit of God, but laid at the door of its proper parents, the spirit of error, and corrupt nature.
All the motions and operations of the spirit are alwayes harmonical and suitable to the written word: Isa. 8. 20. To the Law, and to the Testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. The Scriptures are by the inspiration of the spirit, therefore his inspirations into the hearts of believers must either substantially agree with the Scriptures, or the inspirations of the spirit be self-repugnant, and contradictory to one another. It is very observable that the works of grace wrought by the spirit in the hearts of believers are represented to us in Scripture as a transcript or copy of the written word: