A39663:1144
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 9.
1Did Judas one of the twelve do so? Learn thence, That a drop of grace, is better than a sea of gifts. Gifts have some excellency in them, but the way of grace is the more excellent way. 1 Cor. 12.31. Gifts as one saith) are dead graces, but graces are living gifts. There's many a learned head in Hell. These are not the things that accompany Salvation. Gifts are the gold that beautifies the Temple, but grace is as the Temple, which sanctified the gold. One tear, one groan, one breathing of an upright heart, is more than the tongues of Angels.
1Did Iudas one of the twelve do so? Learn thence, That a drop of grace, is better than a sea of gifts. Gifts have some excellency in them, but the way of grace is the more excellent way. 1 Cor. 12.31. Gifts as one saith) are dead graces, but graces are living gifts. There's many a learned head in Hell. These are not the things that accompany Salvation. Gifts are the gold that beautifies the Temple, but grace is as the Temple, which sanctified the gold. One tear, one groan, one breathing of an upright heart, is more than the tongues of Angels.
- 1Cor. 9.