A39663:1239
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.
Now, there is nothing more apt to beget and breed this vain soul undoing confidence, than the stirrings and meltings of our affections about spiritual things, whilst the heart remains unrenewed all the while.1 For (as a grave Divine hath well observed) such a man seems to have all that is required of a Christian, and herein to have attained the very end of all knowledge; which is operation and influence upon the heart and affections.
- 1Mr. An. Burg.
Indeed (thinks such a poor deluded soul,) if I did hear, read, or pray without any inward affections, with a dead, cold, and unconcerned heart: or if I did make show of Zeal, and affection in duties, and had it not▪ well might I suspect my self to be a self-cozening Hypocrite: but its not so with me. I feel my heart really melted many times, when I read the sufferings of Christ. I feel my heart raised, and ravished with strange Joys and comforts, when I hear the glory of Heaven opened in the Gospel.
Indeed (thinks such a poor deluded soul,) if I did hear, read, or pray without any inward affections, with a dead, cold, and unconcerned heart: or if I did make shew of Zeal, and affection in dutys, and had it not▪ well might I suspect my self to be a self-cozening Hypocrite: but its not so with me. I feel my heart really melted many times, when I read the sufferings of Christ. I feel my heart raised, and ravished with strange Joys and comforts, when I hear the glory of Heaven opened in the Gospel.