A39663:1078
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.
Inference 4.
1Was Christ so earnest in prayer that he prayed himself into a very agony? Let the people of God blush to think how unlike their Spirits are to Christ, as to their prayer frames.
- 1Infer. 4.
O what lively, sensible, quick, deep, and tender apprehensions and sense of those things about which he prayed had Christ? Though he saw his very blood starting out from his hands, and his clothes died in it; yet being in an agony he prayed the more earnestly. I do not say Christ is imitable in this. No, but his fervour in prayer is a pattern for us, and serves severely to rebuke the laziness, dullness, torpor, formality, and stupidity that is in our prayers. How often do we bring the Sacrifice of the dead, before the Lord! How often do our lips move, and our hearts stand still? Oh how unlike ⟨p. 293⟩Christ are we! his prayers were pleading prayers, full of mighty arguments, and fervorous affectations. O that his people were in this more like him!
O what lively, sensible, quick, deep, and tender apprehensions and sense of those things about which he prayed had Christ? Though he saw his very blood starting out from his hands, and his cloaths died in it; yet being in an agony he prayed the more earnestly. I do not say Christ is imitable in this. No, but his fervour in prayer is a pattern for us, and serves severely to rebuke the laziness, dulness, torpor, formality, and stupidity that is in our prayers. How often do we bring the Sacrifice of the dead, before the Lord! How often do our lips move, and our hearts stand still? Oh how unlike