A39663:1136
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 6.
Did Judas sell Christ for money?1 What a potent conqueror is the love of this world! How many hath it cast down wounded? What great Professors have been dragged at its Chariot wheels as its captives? Hymeneus and Philetus, Ananias and Sapphira, Demas and Judas, with thousands and ten thousands since their days, led away in triumph. It drowns men in perdition. 1 Tim. 6.9. in that pit of perdition, this Son of perdition fell, and never rose more. O you that so court and prosecute it, that so love and admire it, make a stand here. Pause a little upon this example. Consider to what it brought this poor wretch whom I have presented to you dead, eternally dead, by the mortal wound that the love of this world gave him; it destroyed both soul and body. Pliny tells us that the Mermaids delight to be in green meadows into which they draw men, by their enchanting voices; but saith he there always lie heaps of dead mens bones by them. A lively emblem of a bewitching world. Good had it been for many Professors of Religion, if they had never known what the riches, and honours, and pleasures of this world meant.
Did Iudas sell Christ for mony?1 What a potent conqueror is the love of this world! How many hath it cast down wounded? What great Professors have been dragged at its Chariot wheels as its captives? Hymeneus and Philetus, Ananias and Saphira, Demas and Iudas, with thousands and ten thousands since their daies, led away in triumph. It drowns men in perdition.