A39663:183
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.
1If there be such excellency in the knowledge of Christ, let it humble, all, both Saints, and sinners that we have no more of this clear, and effectual knowledge in us, notwithstanding the excellent advantages we have had for it. Sinners, concerning you I may sigh, and say with the Apostle, 1 Cor. 15.34. some have not the knowledge of Christ, I speak this to your shame; this, oh this, is the condemnation; and even for you that are enlightened in this knowledge, how little do you know of Jesus Christ, in comparison of what you might have known of him? what a shame is it, that you should need to be taught the very first truths, when for the time you might have been teachers of others? Heb. 5.12, 13, 14. that your Ministers cannot speak unto you as spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ, 1 Cor. 3.1.2. Oh, how much time is spent in other studies! in vain discourses, frivolous Pamphlets, worldly employments, how little in the search and study of Jesus Christ?
1If there be such excellency in the knowledge of Christ, let it humble, all, both Saints, and sinners that we have no more of this clear, and effectual knowledge in us, notwithstanding the excellent advantages we have had for it. Sinners, concerning you I may sigh, and say with the Apostle, 1 Cor. 15.34. some have not the knowledge of Christ, I speak this to your shame; this, oh this, is the condemnation; and even for you that are enlightned in this knowledge, how little do you know of Jesus Christ, in comparison of what you might have known of him? what a shame is it, that you should need to be taught the very first truths, when for the time you might have been teachers of others? Heb. 5.12, 13, 14. that your Ministers cannot speak unto you as spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ,