A39663:1412
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.
Sixthly, As it was against Christs heart melting expostulations with them, so it was against a late direful example presented to them in the fall of Judas. In him as in a Glass they might see how fearful a thing it is to apostatize from Christ. They had heard Christs dreadful threats against him. They were present when he called him the Son of perdition, Joh. 17.11. They had heard Christ to say of him, good had it been if he had never been born. An expression able to scare the deadest heart. They saw he had left Christ the evening before. And that very day in which they fled, he hanged himself. And yet they fly. For all this they forsake Christ.
Sixthly, As it was against Christs heart melting expostulations with them, so it was against a late direful example presented to them in the fall of Iudas. In him as in a Glass they might see how fearful a thing it is to apostatize from Christ. They had heard Christs dreadful threats against him. They were present when he call'd him the Son of perdition, Ioh. 17.11. They had heard Christ to say of him, good had it been if he had never been born. An expression able to scare the deadest heart. They saw he had left Christ the evening before. And that very day in which they fled, he hang'd himself. And yet they fly. For all this they forsake Christ.
Seventhly, As it was against the dreadful warning given them in the fall of Judas, so it was against the Law of Love, which should have knit them closer to Christ and one another.
Seventhly, As it was against the dreadful warning given them in the fall of Iudas, so it was against the Law of Love, which should have knit them closer to Christ and one another.