A39663:1501
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, Look forward, to the end of your troubles; yea look to a double end of them, the end of their duration, and the end of their operation. Look ye to the end of their duration, and that's fast by you. They shall not be everlasting troubles, if you be such as fear the Lord. The God of all Grace, who hath called us into his eternal glory, by Jesus Christ, after that ye have [suffered a while,] make you perfect, 1 Pet. 5.10. These light afflictions are but for a moment, 2 Cor. 4.18. It is no more comparatively with that vast eternity that is before you. Alas, what are a few days and nights of sorrows, when they are past? Are they not swallowed up as a spoonful of water in the vast Ocean? But more especially look to the end of their operation. What do all these afflictions tend to, and effect? Do they not work out an exceeding weight of Glory? Are you not by them made partakers of his holiness? Heb. 12. Is not this all the fruit to take away your sins? What, and be impatient at this! Fret and repine because God is this way perfecting your happiness? O ungrateful soul! Is this a due requital of that love, that disdains not to stoop to so Low an employment, as to scour and cleanse your souls; that they might be shining vessels of honour, to all Eternity!
Sixthly, Look forward, to the end of your troubles; yea look to a double end of them, the end of their duration, and the end of their operation. Look ye to the end of their duration, and that's fast by you. They shall not be everlasting troubles, if you be such as fear the Lord. The God of all Grace, who hath call'd us into his eternal glory, by Iesus Christ, after that ye have [suffered a while,] make you perfect, 1 Pet. 5.10. These light afflictions are but for a moment, 2 Cor. 4.18. It is no more comparatively with that vast eternity that is before you. Alas, what are a few days and nights of sorrows, when they are past? Are they not swallow'd up as a spoonful of water in the vast Ocean? But more especially look to the end of their operation. What do all these afflictions tend to, and effect? Do they not work out an exceeding weight of Glory? Are you not by them made partakers of his holiness?