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 17, 2024.
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Inference 2.
* 1.1Did Christ go to Heaven as a fore-runner? What haste should we make to follow him! He ran to Heaven, he ran thither before us. Did he run to glory and shall we linger? Did he flee as an Eagle towards Heaven, and we creep like snails? Come Christians lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset you, and run with patience the Race set before you, looking unto Iesus, Heb. 12.1, 2. The Captain of our Salvation is entred within the gates of the new Ierusalem, and calls to us out of Heaven, to
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hasten to him; proposing the greatest incouragements to them that are following after him, saying he that overcomes shall sit with me in my Throne, as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his Throne, Rev. 3.21. How tedious should it seem to us to live so long at a distance from our Lord Jesus! our Life.