The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carryed on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ...
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The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carryed on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ...
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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
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London :: Printed for Rob. White, for Francis Tyton ...,
1673.
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Jesus Christ -- Ethics.
Presbyterian Church -- Sermons.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
Immortality.
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"The fountain of life opened, or, A display of Christ in his essential and mediatorial glory wherein the impetration of our redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun, carryed on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39663.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Inference 1.
* 1.1How great is their sin and misery who continue in bondage to sin and Satan, and refuse the Government of Christ! Who had rather sit under the shadow of that bramble, than under the sweet and powerful government of Christ. Satan writes his Laws in the blood of his Subjects, grinds them with cruel op∣pression. Wears them out with bondage to divers Lusts: and rewards their service with everlasting misery. And yet how few are weary of it, and willing to come over to Christ!
Be∣hold, (said one of Christs Heralds) Christ is in the field:* 1.2 sent of God to recover his right, and your liberty: His Roy∣al Standard is pitcht in the Gospel, and proclamation made; that if any poor sinners weary of the Devils Government, and
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laden with the miserable chains of his Spiritual bondage, (so as these Irons of his sins, enter into his very soul, to afflict it with the sense of them) shall thus come and repair to Christ: he shall have protection from Gods Justice, the Devils wrath, and sins dominion; in a word, he shall have rest, and that glo∣rious. Isai. 11.10.
And yet how few stir a foot towards Christ? but are willing to have their ears boared, and be perpetual slaves to that cruel Tyrant. O when will sinners be weary of their bondage, and sigh after deliverance! If any such poor soul shall read these lines; let him know, and I do proclaim it in the name of my Roy∣al Master, and give him the word of a King for it, he shall not be rejected by Christ. Ioh. 6.37. Come poor sinners, come; the Lord Jesus is a merciful King; and never did, nor will hang up that poor penitent, that puts the rope about his own neck, and submits to mercy.