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 9.
* 1.1Did Iudas one of the twelve do so? Learn thence, That a drop of grace, is better than a sea of gifts. Gifts have some excel∣lency in them, but the way of grace is the more excellent way. 1 Cor. 12.31. Gifts as one saith) are dead graces, but graces are living gifts. There's many a learned head in Hell. These are not the things that accompany Salvation. Gifts are the gold that beautifies the Temple, but grace is as the Temple, which san∣ctified the gold. One tear, one groan, one breathing of an up∣right heart, is more than the tongues of Angels.
Poor Christian, thou art troubled that thou canst not speak and pray so neatly, so handsomly, as some others can; but canst thou go into a corner, and there pour out thy soul affectionately,
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though not rhetorically to thy Father? trouble not thy self. It's better for thee to feel one divine impression from God upon thine heart, than to have ten thousand fine notions floating in thy head. Iudas was a man of parts; but what good did they do him?