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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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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.
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⟩assunder with the wedges that are cut out of their own bodies.
Third Query, Have you not risen up rebelliously against, and hated your Parents for chastening your bodies, to save your souls from Hell? Some Children (saith one) will not take that from a Parent, which Beasts, yea, and salvage Beasts too; Bears, and Lions will take from their keepers. What is this but to resist an Ordinance of God for your good? And in rebelling against them to rebel against the Lord? Well, if they do not, God will take the Rod into his own hand; and him you shall not resist.
Third Query, Have you not risen up rebelliously against, and hated your Parents for chastening your bodies, to save your souls from Hell? Some Children (saith one) will not take that from a Parent, which Beasts, yea, and salvage Beasts too; Bears, and Lions will take from their keepers. What is this but to resist an Ordinance of God for your good? And in rebelling against them to rebell against the Lord? Well, if they do not, God will take the Rod into his own hand; and him you shall not resist.