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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
Sermon 28 › DOCT. That Christs dearest friends forsook and left him alone, in t… › Inference 1.
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Inference 1.
Did the Disciples forsake Christ though they had such strong persuasions and resolutions never to do it,1 then we see, That self-confidence is a sin too incident to the best of men. They little thought their hearts would have proved so base and deceitful, as they found them to be when they were tried. Though all men forsake thee (saith Peter) yet will not I. Good man, he resolved honestly, but he knew not what a feather he should be in the wind of Temptation, if God once left him to his own fears.
Did the Disciples forsake Christ though they had such strong perswasions and resolutions never to do it,1 then we see, That self-confidence is a sin too incident to the best of men. They little thought their hearts would have proved so base and deceitful, as they found them to be when they were tried. Though all men forsake thee (saith Peter) yet will not I. Good man, he resolved honestly, but he knew not what a feather he should be in the wind of Temptation, if God once left him to his own fears.
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Little reason have the best of Saints to depend upon their inherent grace, let their stock be as large as it will. The Angels left to themselves, quickly left their own habitation,