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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Corollary 4.

Moreover,* 1.1 in this example of Iudas you may read this truth; That men and women are never in more eminent danger, than when they meet with temptations exactly suited to their master-lusts; to their own iniquity. O pray, pray, that ye may be kept

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from a violent suitable temptation. Satan knows that when a man is tried here, he falls by the root. The love of this world was all along Iudas his master-sin, and some conjecture he was a marri∣ed man, and had a great charge; but that is conjectural, it was his predominant Lust. The Devil found out this, and suited it with a temptation, which fully hit his humour, and it carries him imme∣diately. This is the dangerous Crisis of the soul. Now you shall see what it is, and what it will do. Put mony before Iudas, and presently you shall see what the man is.

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