A39663:1360
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.
Inference 1.
Hence it follows that the providence of our God can, 1and often doth over rule the counsels and actions of the worst of men to his own glory.
- 1Infer. 1.
It can serve it self by them that oppose it, and bring about the glory and honour of Christ, by those very men, and means, which are designed to lay it in the dust. Surely the wrath of man ⟨p. 362⟩shall praise thee, Psal. 76.10. The Jews thought when they Crowned Christ with Thorns, bowed the knee, and mocked him; led him to Golgotha, and crucified him; that now they had utterly despoiled him of all his Kingly dignities: and yet even there, he is proclaimed a King. Thus the dispersion of the Jews upon the death of Stephen, spread the Gospel far and near, For they went every where Preaching the Word, Acts 8.4. Thus Pauls bonds for the Gospel, fell out to the furtherance of the Gospel,