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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. Regula regulans, the rule, ruling. 2. Regula regulata, the rule ruled.
The wisest and holiest among men may pretend no higher than a ruled rule. The great Apostle, though filled with as great a measure of the spirit of wisdom and holiness as ever was possessed by any mere man; yet goes no higher than this, 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ. The best of men are but men at best: they have their errors and defects which they freely acknowledge: and where they differ from Christ, 'tis our duty to differ from them: we may not pin our faith upon any mans sleeve, for we know not where he will carry it. It was the commendation which Paul gave of the Thessalonians, 1 Thes. 1. 6. And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord. The noble Bereans were also commended for searching the Scriptures and examining the 1Apostles doctrine by it: and it was a good reply of the Eather, to a clamorous disputant crying hear me, hear me, I will ⟨p. 499⟩neither hear thee, nor do thou hear me; but let us both hear Christ.
The wisest and holiest among men may pretend no higher than a ruled rule. The great Apostle, though filled with as great a measure of the spirit of wisdom and holiness as ever was possessed by any meer man; yet goes no higher than this, 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ. The best of men are but men at best: they have their errors and defects which they freely acknowledge: and where they differ from Christ, 'tis our duty to differ from them: we may not pin our faith upon any mans sleeve, for we know not where he will carry it. It was the commendation which Paul gave of the Thessalonians,