A39663:1872
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.
First, What is implied in this Act of a believer his commending §1or committing his soul into the hands of God at Death?
First, What is implyed in this Act of a believer his commending §1or committing his soul into the hands of God at Death?
And if it be throughly weighed, you will find these six things at least carried in it.
1First, It implies this evidently in it, that the soul out-lives the body, and fails not as to its being, when its body fails. It feels the house in which it dwelt dropping into ruins, and looks out for a new habitation with God. Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit. The soul understands it self a more noble being than that corruptible body, to which it was united; and is now to leave in the dust. It understands its relation to the Father of spirits, and from him it expects protection and provision in its unbodied state; and therefore into his hands it puts it self. If it vanished or breathed into air, and did not survive the body; if it were annihilated at death, it were but a mocking of God to say when we die. Father, into thy hand I commend my Spirit.
- 1Q•isquis in Co••stum credet, non efflabit in aerem animam morieas, sed ad fid len despositarium co•fugiet, qui tuto conservet quiequid sbitraditum est. Calv.