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 ...
About this Item
Title
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 ...
Author
Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for Rob. White, for Francis Tyton ...,
1673.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Jesus Christ -- Ethics.
Presbyterian Church -- Sermons.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
Immortality.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39663.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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 17, 2024.
Pages
Inference 4.
If Believers are immediatly with God,* 1.1after their dissolution, then it's their Duty to long for their dissolution. And cast many a longing look towards their Graves. So did Paul, I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, which is far better. The advan∣tages of this exchange are unspeakable. You have Gold, for Brass; Wine, for Water; Substance, for shadows; solid Glo∣ry, for very Vanity. O if the dust of this earth were but once blown out of your eyes, that you might see the divine glory; how weary would you be to live? How willing to die? But then be sure your title to heaven be sound and good. Leave not so great a con∣cernment
descriptionPage 442
to the last. For though it is confessed God may do that in an hour, that never was done all your days, yet it is not com∣mon. Which brings us to our Third and Last observation.