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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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Secondly, How humble and lowly in spirit should you be under your great advancement! It's true, God hath magnified you greatly by this Union; but yet don't swell, You bear not the root but the root you, Rom. 11. 18. You shine, but it is as the Stars, with a borrowed light.
Thirdly, How Zealous should you be to honour Christ, who hath put so much honour upon you! Be willing to give glory to Christ, though his glory should rise out of your shame. Never reckon that glory that goes to Christ, to be lost to you: when you lye at his feet in the most particular heart-breaking confessions of sin, yet let this please you, that therein you have given him glory.
Thirdly, How Zealous should you be to honour Christ, who hath put so much honour upon you! Be willing to give glory to Christ, though his glory should rise out of your shame. Never reckon that glory that goes to Christ, to be lost to you: when you lye at his feet in the most particular heart-breaking confessions ofsin, yet let this please you, that therein you have given him glory.
Fourthly, how exact and circumspect should you be in all your ways, remembering whose you are, and whom you represent! Shall it be said that a member of Christ was convicted of unrighteous and unholy actions! God forbid: if we say we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness we lye, 1 Joh. 1. 6. and he that saith he abideth in him, ought also himself to walk even as he walked, 1 Joh. 2. 6.
Fourthly, how exact and circumspect should you be in all your wayes, remembring whose you are, and whom you represent! Shall it be said that a member of Christ was convicted of unrighteous and unholy actions! God forbid: if we say we have fellowship with him, and walkin darkness we lye,