A39663:1601
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.
It was anciently a Proverb among the Heathen, in sola Sparta, expedit senescere, It's good to be an old man or woman only in Sparta, The ground of it was the strict Laws that were among the Spartans to punish the rebellions and disobedience of Children to their aged Parents. And shall it not be good to be an old Father or Mother in England, where the Gospel of Christ is Preached, and such an argument as this now set before you urged; an argument which the Heathen world was never acquainted with? Shall Parents here be forced to complain with the Eagle in the Fable, that they are smitten to the heart, by an arrow winged with ⟨p. 420⟩their own Feathers. Or as a Tree rived in pieces by the wedges that were made of its own body? God forbid.
To prevent such sad occasions of Complaints as these, I desire all that sustain the relation of Children into whose hands providence shall cast this discourse, seriously to ponder this example of Christ, proposed for their imitation in this point. Wherein we shall first consider what duties belong to the relation of Children, secondly, how Christs example enforces those duties, and then suitably apply it
To prevent such sad occasions of Complaints as these, I desire all that sustain the relation of Children into whose hands providence shall cast this discourse, seriously to ponder this example of Christ, proposed for their imitation in this point. Wherein we shall first consider what dutys belong to the relation of Children, secondly, how Christs example enforces those dutys, and then sutably apply it
First, Let us examine what duties pertain to the relation of Children. And they are as truly as commonly branched out into the following particulars.