A39663:1661
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.
DOCT. 2. That all believers are at their death,1 immediately received into a State of glory and eternal happiness.
- 1Doct. 2.
This day shalt thou be with me.
This the Atheist denies, he thinks he shall die, and therefore resolves to live as the Beasts that perish. Beryllus and some others after him, taught, that there was indeed a •uture state of happiness and misery for souls, but that they pass not into it immediately upon death and separation from the body, but shall sleep till the Resurrection and then awake and enter into it. But is not that soul asleep, or worse, that dreams of a sleeping soul till the Resurrection. Are souls so wounded and prejudiced by their separation from the body, that they cannot subsist or act separate from it? Or have they found any such conceit in the Scriptures? Not at all. The Scriptures take notice of no such interval; but plainly enough denies it, 2 Cor. 5.8. We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. Mark it, no sooner parted from the body, but present with the Lord. So