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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 31 › DOCT. That Christs tender care of his Mother even in the time of hi… › Inference 1.
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It may be you are vigorous and young, they decayed, and wrinkled with Age. But saith the Holy Ghost, despise not thy Mother when she is old, Prov. 23.22. Or when she is wrinkled, as the Hebrew signifies.1 It may be you are rich, they poor; own and honour them in their poverty, and despise them not. God will requite it with his hand if you do.
It may be you are vigorous and young, they decayed, and wrinkled with Age. But saith the Holy Ghost, despise not thy Mother when she is old, Prov. 23.22. Or when she is wrinkled, as the Hebrew signifies.1 It may be you are rich, they poor; owne and honour them in their poverty, and despise them not. God will requite it with his hand if you do.
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Second Query, Have you not been disobedient to the commands of Parents? A Son of Belial is a Son of wrath, if God give not Repentance to life. Is not this the black brand set upon the Heathens, Rom. 1.30. Have not many repented this upon a Ladder, with an halter about their necks? Woe to him that makes a Father or Mother complain as the Tree in the Fable, that they are cloven ⟨p. 425⟩asunder with the wedges that are cut out of their own bodies.