A39663:1470
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.
Secondly, And that is the next thing we have to consider, even this almighty patience and unpatterned meekness of Christ, supporting such a burden with such evenness and steadiness of spirit. Christian patience or the grace Patience, is an ability or power to suffer hard and heavy things, according to the will of God.
Secondly, And that is the next thing we have to consider, even this almighty patience and unpattern'd meekness of Christ, supporting such a burden with such evenness and steadiness of spirit. Christian patience or the grace Patience, is an ability or power to suffer hard and heavy things, according to the will of God.
It is a power, and a glorious power that strengthens the suffering Soul to bear. It is our passive fortitude, Col. 1.11. Strengthened with all might, according to the glorious power, unto all patience, and long suffering with Joyfulness, (i. e.) strengthened with a might or power, corresponding to the glorious power of God himself. Or such as might appear to be the proper impress and image of that divine power, which is both its principle and pattern. For the Patience which God exercises towards sinners that daily wrong and load him, is called power, and great power, Num. 14.17. Let the power of my Lord be great, as thou hast spoken, saying, the Lord is long Suffering, forgiving, &c. Hence it's observed, Prov. 24.10. That the loss or breaking of our patience under adversity argues a decay of strength in the soul. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
It is a power, and a glorious power that strengthens the suffering Soul to bear. It is our passive fortitude, Col. 1.11