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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.
The use of all this I shall give you in a few Inferences, on which I shall not enlarge, the whole being only preliminary to the Doctrine of Christ, only for the present I shall hence infer,
The use of all this I shall give you in a few Inferences, on which I shall not enlarge, the whole being only praeliminary to the Doctrine of Christ, only for the present I shall hence infer,
The ••sufficiency of the Doctrine of Christ,1 to make men wise unto salvation. Paul desired to know nothing else, and indeed nothing else is of absolute necessity to be known: a little of this knowledge (if saving and effectual upon thy heart) will do thy soul more service than all the vain speculations, and profound parts that others so much glory in; poor Christian, be not dejected, because thou seest thy self out-stripped, and excelled by so many, in other parts of knowledge: if thou know Jesus Christ, thou knowest enough, to comfort and save thy ⟨p. 8⟩soul; many learned Philosophers are now in Hell, and many illiterate Christians in Heaven.
The ••sufficiency of the Doctrine of Christ,1 to make men wise unto salvation. Paul de•ired to know nothing else, and indeed nothing else is of absolute necessity to be known: a little of this knowledge (if saving and eff•ctual upon thy heart) will do thy soul more service than all the vain speculations, and profound parts that others so much glory in; poor Christian, be not dejected, because thou seest thy self out-stript, and excelled by so many, in other parts of knowledge: if thou know Jesus Christ, thou knowest enough, to comfort and save thy