A39663:1056
The Fountain of Life Opened
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, carried on, and finished by his covenant-transaction, mysterious incarnation, solemn call and dedication ... / by John Flavell ...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 ...
London: printed for Rob. White, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, We shall consider the time when he entered into this §2Garden to pray.1 And it was in the shutting in of the evening. For it was after the Passover, and the Supper were ended. Then (as Matthew hath it Matth. 26.36.) Jesus went over the Brook into the Garden; betwixt the hours of nine and ten in the evening, as it is conjectured; and so he had betwixt two and three hours time, to pour out his soul to God. For it was about midnight that Judas and the Soldiers came and apprehended him there. So that it being immediately before his apprehension, it shows us in what frame and posture Christ desired to be found: and by it he left us an excellent pattern, what we ought to do, when eminent dangers are near us even at the door.2 It becomes a Soldier to die fighting, and a Minister to die preaching, and a Christian to die praying. If they come they find Christ upon his knees; wrestling mightily with God by prayer. He never spent one moment of the time of his life idly; but these were the last moments he had to live in this world, and here you may see how they were filled up, and employed.
Secondly, We shall consider the time when he entred into this §2Garden to pray.1 And it was in the shutting in of the evening. For it was after the Passoever, and the Supper were ended. Then (as Matthew hath it Matth. 26.36.) Jesus went over the Brook into the Garden; betwixt the hours of nine and ten in the evening, as it is conjectured; and so he had betwixt two and three hours time, to pour out his soul to God. For it was about midnight that Iudas and the Souldiers came and apprehended him there. So that it being immediately before his apprehension, it shews us in what frame and posture Christ desired to be found: and by it he left us an excellent pattern, what we ought to do, when eminent dangers are near us even at the door.