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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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(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 xhow are some vain minds puffed up with these things! but ye have not so learned Christ.
(2.) That you be humble under all that dignity and honour which God hath put upon you: be ye cloathed 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 luster of your other excellencies: Estates and Honours are but appendants and fine trappings which add not any real worth, yet xhow are some vain minds puffed up with these things! but ye have not so learned Christ.
- *Non eloquimur magna, fed vivimus. Tertul. Apolog.
- xNarrant Bucephalum quoties nudus esset, equisonem admittere in tergum voluisse: sed regiis phaleris & bullis decoratum, neminem praeter regem ipsum tulisse: ita sanè-fit in novis hisce optimatibus, &c.