A39663:1659
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.
Inference 3.
1If there certainly be such an Eternal State, into which souls pass immediately after Death; How great a change then doth Death make upon every man and woman! O what a serious thing is it to die! It's your passage out of the swift river of Time, into the boundless and bottomless Ocean of Eternity. You that now converse with sensible objects, with men and women like your selves, enter then into the world of Spirits. You that now see the continual revolutions of days and nights, passing away one after another, will then be fixed in a perpetual NOW. O what a serious thing is Death! You throw a cast for Eternity, when you die. If you were to cast a Dye for your natural life, oh how would your hand shake with fear, how it would fall? but what is that to this?
1If there certainly be such an Eternal State, into which souls pass immediately after Death; How great a change then doth Death make upon every man and woman! O what a serious thing is it to die! It's your passage out of the swift river of Time, into the boundless and bottomless Ocean of Eternity. You that now converse with sensible objects, with men and women like your selves, enter then into the world of Spirits. You that now see the continual revolutions of daies and nights, passing away one after another, will then be fixed in a perpetual NOW. O what a serious thing is Death! You throw a cast for Eternity, when you die. If you were to cast a Dye for your natural life, oh how would your hand shake with fear, how it would fall? but what is that to this?
- 1Infer. 3.