The Fountain of Life Opened

Inference 1.

¹Let those that have found mercy in the evening of their life, admire the extraordinary grace that therein hath appeared to them. O that ever God accept the Bran, when Satan hath had the Flour of thy days! The forementioned reverend Author tells us of one Marcus Cajus Victorius a very aged man in the primitive times, who was converted from Heathenism to Christianity in his old age. This man came to Simplicianus a Minister, and told him he heartily owned and embraced the Christian faith. But neither he nor the Church would trust him for a long time. And the reason was the unusualness and strangeness of a conversion at such an age. But after he had given them good evidence of the reality thereof, there were acclamations and singing of Psalms, the people every where crying Marcus Ca•us Victorius is become a Christian. This was written for a wonder. Oh if God have wrought such wondrous salvations for any of you, what cause have you to do more for him than others! What, to pluck you out of Hell when one foot was in! To appear to you at last when so hardened by long custom in sin, that one might say, can the Ethiopian change his hue, or the Leopard his spots? O what riches of mercy have appeared to you!

¹Let those that have found mercy in the evening of their life, admire the extraordinary grace that therein hath appeared to them. O that ever God accept the Bran, when Satan hath had the Flour of thy days! The forementioned reverend Author tells us of one Marcus Cajus Victorius a very aged man in the primitive times, who was converted from Heathenism to Christianity in his old age. This man came to Simplicianus a Minister, and told him he heartily owned and embraced the Christian faith. But neither he nor the Church would trust him for a long time. And the reason was the unusualness and strangeness of a conversion at such an age. But after he had given them good evidence of the reallity thereof, there were acclamations and singing of Psalms, the people every where crying Marcus Caus Victorius is become a Christian. This was written for a wonder. Oh if God have wrought such wondrous salvations for any of you, what cause have you to do more for him than others! What, to pluck you out of Hell when one foot was in! To appear to you at last when so hardned by long custom in sin, that one might say, can the Ethiopian change his hue, or the Leopard his spots? O what riches of mercy have appeared to you!