Diduction 5.
Do the souls of dying believers commend themselves into the hands of God.* 1.1 Then let not the surviving relations of such sorrow as
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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- 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 8, 2024.
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men that have not hope. A Husband, a Wife, a Child, is rent by death out of your arms, well, but consider into what arms, into what bosom they are commended. Is it not better for them to be in the bosom of God, than in yours? Could they be spared so long from Heaven as to come back again to you but one hour, how would they be displeased to see your tears, and hear your cries and sighs for them! They would say to you, as Christ said to the daughters of Ierusalem, weep not for me, but weep for your selves and your children. I am in a safe hand, I am out of the reach of all storms and troubles. O did you but know what their state is, who are with God, you would be more than satisfied about them.
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* 1.1
Diduct. 5.