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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.
DOCT. 2. That the believing meditation of what Christ Suffered for us,1 is of great force and efficacy to melt and break the heart.
- 1Doct. 2.
It is the Promise, Zach. 12.10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only Son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first born. Ponder seriously here the Spring and Motive, They shall look upon me. It's the eye of Faith that melts and breaks the heart. The effect of such a sight of Christ, they shall look and mourn. Be in bitterness, and sorrow. True Repentance is a drop out of the eye of Faith.
And the measure or degree of that sorrow, caused by a believing view of Christ. To express which, two of the fullest instances of grief we read of, are borrowed. That of a tender Father, mourning over a dear and only Son. That of the people of Israel, mourning over Josiah that peerless Prince, in the valley of Megiddo.
And the measure or degree of that sorrow, caused by a believing view of Christ. To express which, two of the fullest instances of grief we read of, are borrowed. That of a tender Father, mourning over a dear and only Son. That of the people of Israel, mourning over Iosiah that peerless Prince, in the valley of Megiddo.