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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
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First, He was truly and sincerely holy, without fiction or simulation: and this appeared in the greatest trial of the truth of holiness that ever was made in this world, John 14. 30. The Prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me: when he was agitated and shaken with the greatest temptations, no 1dregs appeared; he was like pure fountain-water in a Crystal Glass. The hypocrite makes show of more holiness than he hath▪ but there was more holiness in Christ, than ever appeared to the view of men. We may say of the way of Christ, what the Philosopher saith of the milky way in the Heavens; that those faint streams of light which we see there, are nothing else but the reflection of innumerable Stars which shine there, though they be invisible to us: there was much inward beauty in him, and so there ought to be in all his followers; our holiness, like Christs, must be sincere and real, Eph. 4. 24. shining with inward beauty towards God rather than towards men.
First, He was truly and sincerely holy, without fiction or simulation: and this appeared in the greatest trial of the truth of holiness that ever was made in this world, John 14. 30. The Prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me: when he was agitated and shaken with the greatest temptations, no 1dregs appeared; he was like pure fountain-water in a Crystal Glass. The hypocrite makes shew of more holiness than he hath▪ but there was more holiness in Christ, than ever appeared to the view of men. We may say of the way of Christ, what the Philosopher saith of the milky way in the Heavens; that those faint streams of light which we see there, are nothing else but the reflection of innumerable Stars which shine there, though they be invisible to us: there was much inward beauty in him, and so there ought to be in all his followers; our holiness, like Christs, must be sincere and real,