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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.
Now the freedom of obedience is the excellency of it, Gods eye is much upon that, 1 Cor. 9. 17. yea, and the uniformity of our obedience, which is also a special part of the beauty of it, results from hence: he that acts from a principle acts •uently and uniformly, there is a proportion betwixt the parts ⟨p. 103⟩of his Conversation: this is it which makes us holy [Greek or Hebrew], in all manner of Conversation, or in every creek and turning of our Conversations, as that word imports, 1 Pet. 1. 15. whereas, he that is moved by this or that external-accidental motive must needs be up and down, off and on, very uneven, like the legs of a lame man, as the expression is, Prov. 26. 7. which are not equal: now a word of God, and then the discourse runs muddy and profane, or carnal again: all that evenness and uniformity that is in the several parts of a Christians life, is the effect of this infused principle of spiritual life.
Now the freedome of obedience is the excellency of it, Gods eye is much upon that, 1 Cor. 9. 17. yea, and the uniformity of our obedience, which is also a special part of the beauty of it, results from hence: he that acts from a principle acts •uently and uniformly, there is a proportion betwixt the parts ⟨p. 103⟩of his Conversation: this is it which makes us holy 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in all manner of Conversation, or in every creek and turning of our Conversations, as that word imports, 1 Pet. 1. 15. whereas, he that is moved by this or that external-accidental motive must needs be up and down, off and on, very uneven, like the legs of a lame man, as the expression is,