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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
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.
There is a three fold thirst, gracious, natural, and penal. The gracious thirst, is the vehement desire of a spiritual heart after God. Of this David speaks, Psal. 42.1, 2. As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear ⟨p. 474⟩before God? And this is indeed a vehement thirst, it makes the soul break with the longings it hath after God, Psal. 119. It's a thirst proper to believers, who have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
There is a three fold thirst, gracious, natural, and penal. The gracious thirst, is the vehement desire of a spiritual heart after God. Of this David speaks, Psal. 42.1, 2. As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear ⟨p. 474⟩before God? And this is indeed a vehement thirst, it makes the soul break with the longings it hath after God, Psal. 119. It's a thirst proper to believers, who have tasted that the Lord is gratious.
Natural thirst is (as before was noted) a desire of refreshment by humid nourishment, and it's common both to believers and unbelievers in this world. Gods dear Saints have been driven to such extremities in this life, that their tongues have even failed for thirst. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, Isa. 41.17. And of the people of God in their Captivity it's said,