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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(1.) That you will search and try your own hearts by these truths, especially now when so great trials are like to be made of every mans root and foundation in Religion. Account that your first work, which Bellarmine calls the first error of Protestants, to make sure your interest in Christ; uevery thing is as its foundation is: a true Diamond will endure the smartest stroke of the Hammer, but a false one will fly.
(1.) That you will search and try your own hearts by these truths, especially now when so great tryals are like to be made of every mans root and foundation in Religion. Account that your first work, which Bellarmine calls the first error of Protestants, to make sure your interest in Christ; uevery thing is as its foundation is: a true Diamond will endure the smartest stroke of the Hammer, but a false one will fly.
- uPrimus haereticorun• error est, posse fideles eam notitiam habere de sua gratia, ut certâ fide statuant sibi remissa esse peccata. Bellarm. de justific. lib. 3. cap. 3.
(2.) That you be humble under all that dignity and honour which God hath put upon you: be ye clothed with humility. It was the glory of the Primitive Christians, that they *did not speak but live great things. ⟨image 7⟩Humility will be the lustre of your other excellencies: Estates and Honours are but appendants and fine trappings which add not any real worth, yet x