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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 30 › Part 1: DOCT. 1. That ignorance is the usual cause of enmity to Christ.
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These things (saith our Lord) will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me, Joh. 16.3. What things doth he mean? Why, kill and destroy the people of God, and therein suppose they do God good service, (i. e.) think to oblige and gratify the Father, by their butchering his Children. So Jer. 9.3. They proceed from evil, to evil; and have not known me saith the Lord, q. d. had they the knowledge of God, that would check and stop them in their ways of wickedness, and so Psal. 74.20. The dark places of the earth, are full of the habitations of cruelty.
These things (saith our Lord) will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me, Joh. 16.3. What things doth he mean? Why, kill and destroy the people of God, and therein suppose they do God good service, (i. e.) think to oblige and gratifie the Father, by their butchering his Children. So Ier. 9.3. They proceed from evil, to evil; and have not known me saith the Lord, q. d. had they the knowledge of God, that would check and stop them in their ways of wickedness, and so Psal. 74.20. The dark places of the earth, are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Three things must be inquired into, sc. what their ignorance of Christ was. Whence it was. And how it disposed them to such enmity against him.