A39663:1886
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.
Fourthly, As the gracious soul is a renewed soul, so it is also a Sealed Soul. God hath sealed it in this world for that glory, into which it is now to enter at death. All gracious souls are sealed objectively, (i. e.) they have those works of grace wrought on their souls, which do (as but now is said) ascertain and evidence their Title to glory. And many are sealed formally. That is the spirit helps them clearly to discern their interest in Christ, and all the promises. This both secures heaven to the soul in it self, and becomes also an earnest or pledge of the glory in the unspeakable joys and comforts that it breeds in the soul. So you find, 2 Cor. 1.22. Who hath sealed us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. Gods sealing us gives high security. His objective ⟨p. 499⟩seal makes it sure in it self, his formal seal makes it so to us. But if over and above all this, he will please as a fruit of that his sealing, to give us those heavenly unexpressible joys and comforts which are the fruit of his formal sealing work, to be an earnest, a foretaste and handsel of that glory how can the soul that hath found all this, doubt in the least of a rejection by its God, when at death it comes to him? surely if God have sealed, he will not refuse you. If he have given you his earnest, he will not shut you out. Gods earnest is not given in Jest.
Fourthly, As the gracious soul is a renewed soul, so it is also a Sealed Soul. God hath sealed it in this world for that glory, into which it is now to enter at death. All gracious souls are sealed objectively, (i. e.) they have those works of grace wrought on their souls, which do (as but now is said) ascertain and evidence their Title to glory. And many are sealed formally. That is the spirit helps them clearly to discern their interest in Christ, and all the promises. This both secures heaven to the soul in it self, and becomes also an earnest or pledge of the glory in the unspeakable joys and comforts that it breeds in the soul. So you find, 2 Cor. 1.22. Who hath sealed us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. Gods sealing us gives high security. His objective ⟨p. 499⟩