A39663:1131
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.
Corollary 4.
Moreover,1 in this example of Judas you may read this truth; That men and women are never in more eminent danger, than when they meet with temptations exactly suited to their master-lusts; to their own iniquity. O pray, pray, that ye may be kept ⟨p. 306⟩from a violent suitable temptation. Satan knows that when a man is tried here, he falls by the root. The love of this world was all along Judas his master-sin, and some conjecture he was a married man, and had a great charge; but that is conjectural, it was his predominant Lust. The Devil found out this, and suited it with a temptation, which fully hit his humour, and it carries him immediately. This is the dangerous Crisis of the soul. Now you shall see what it is, and what it will do. Put money before Judas, and presently you shall see what the man is.
Moreover,1 in this example of Iudas you may read this truth; That men and women are never in more eminent danger, than when they meet with temptations exactly suited to their master-lusts; to their own iniquity. O pray, pray, that ye may be kept ⟨p. 306⟩from a violent suitable temptation. Satan knows that when a man is tried here, he falls by the root. The love of this world was all along Iudas his master-sin, and some conjecture he was a married man, and had a great charge; but that is conjectural, it was his predominant Lust. The Devil found out this, and suited it with a temptation, which fully hit his humour, and it carries him immediately. This is the dangerous Crisis of the soul. Now you shall see what it is, and what it will do. Put mony before Iudas, and presently you shall see what the man is.