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.
Is Iesus Christ thus enthroned in Heaven,* 1.1then how impossible is it, that ever his interest should miscarry or sink on earth? The Church hath many subtil and potent enemies. True, but as Haman could not prevail against the Iews whilst Hester their friend spake for them to the King; no more can they, whilst our Iesus sits at his, and our Fathers right hand. Will he suffer his enemies that are under his feet, to rise up and pull out his eyes think you? Surely they that touch his people, touch the very Apple of his eye, Zech. 2.8. He must reign till all his enemies are under his foot, 1 Cor. 15.25.
The enemy under his feet, shall not destroy the children in his arms. He sits in Heaven on purpose to manage all to the advan∣tage of his Church, Eph. 1.22. Are our enemies powerful, lo our King sits on the right hand of power. Are they subtil and deep in their contrivance, he that sits on the Throne over-looks all they do. Heaven over-looks Hell. He that sits in the Heavens beholds, and derides their attempts, Psal 2.4. He may permit his enemies to straighten them in one place, but it shall be for their enlargement in another. For 'tis with the Church, as it is with the Sea; what it loses in one place, it gets in another; and so really loses nothing. He may suffer them also to distress us in outwards, but that shall be recompenced with inward, and better mercies; and so we shall lose nothing by that. A foot-stool you know is u••eful to him that treads on it, and serves to lift him up the higher: so shall Christs ene∣mies be to him, and his; albeit they think not so. What singu∣lar benefits the oppositions of his enemies, occasion to his people; I have * 1.2 else-where discovered, to which I refer my Reader and pass to the