A39663:176
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.
Fit•hly, It is the most sweet, and comfortable knowledge; to be studying Jesus Christ, what is it? but to be digging among all the veins,1 and springs of comfort, and the deeper you dig, the more do those springs flow upon you: how are hearts ravished with the discoveries of Christ in the Gospel? what ecstasies, meltings, transports, do gracious souls meet there? doubtless, Philips ecstasy, Joh. 1.45. [Greek or Hebrew]: we have found Jesus, was far beyond that of Archimedes: a believer could fit from Morning to Night, to hear Discourses of Christ; his mouth is most sweet, Cant. 5.16.
Fit•hly, It is the most sweet, and comfortable knowledge; to be studying Jesus Christ, what is it? but to be digging among all the veins,1 and springs of comfort, and the deeper you dig, the more do those springs flow upon you: how are hearts ravished with the discoveries of Christ in the Gospel? what extasies, meltings, transports, do gratious souls meet there? doubtless, Philips extasie, Ioh. 1.45. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: we have found Jesus, was far beyond that of Archimedes: a believer could fit from Morning to Night, to hear Discourses of Christ; his mouth is most sweet, Cant. 5.16.
- 1Omnis cognitio tuae veri•atis long• ju•u• dissima est suavissi•a & amaenissima, etiam quae prostat pro oribus, & obviam cuique sese sonte data quantu deliciarum est illius, quam in intimis penetralibus reconditam apud te habes, multisque seris, & repagulis clausam? Brightman in Cant.