A39663:1413
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.
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.
If to avoid the present shock of persecution they had fled, yet surely they should have kept together praying, watching, encouraging, and strengthening one another. This had made it a lesser evil: but as they all forsook Christ, so they forsook one another also; For it's said, Joh. 16.32. They should go every man to his own, and leave Christ alone (i. e.) saith Beza, every man to his own house, and to his own business. They forsook each other, as well as Christ. O what an hour of temptation was this!
If to avoid the present shock of persecution they had fled, yet surely they should have kept together praying, watching, encouraging, and stengthening one another. This had made it a lesser evil: but as they all forsook Christ, so they forsook one another also; For it's said, Ioh. 16.32. They should go every man to his own, and leave Christ alone (i. e.) saith Beza, every man to his own house, and to his own business. They forsook each other, as well as Christ. O what an hour of temptation was this!