A39663:1889
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
Sermon 36 › DOCT. That dying believers are both warranted, and encouraged by Ch… › Diduction 1.
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Diduction 1.
1Are dying believers only warranted and encouraged thus to commend their souls into the hands of God. What a sad straight then must all dying unbelievers be in about their souls? Such souls will fall into the hands of God, but that's their misery, not their privilege. They are not put by faith into the hands of mercy, but fall by sin into the hands of justice. Not God, but the Devil is their Father, Job. 8.44. Whither should the child go, but to its own Father? They have not one of those forementioned encouragements ⟨p. 501⟩to cast themselves into the hands of God, except the naked relation they have to God as their Creator, and that's as good as none, without the new creation. If they have nothing but this to plead for their salvation, the Devil hath as much to plead as they. It's the new creature that brings the first creation into repute again with God.
1Are dying believers only warranted and encouraged thus to commend their souls into the hands of God. What a sad straight then must all dying unbelievers be in about their souls? Such souls will fall into the hands of God, but that's their misery, not their priveledge. They are not put by faith into the hands of mercy, but fall by sin into the hands of justice. Not God, but the Devil is their Father, Iob. 8.44. Whither should the child go, but to its own Father? They have not one of those forementioned encouragements ⟨p. 501⟩to cast themselves into the hands of God, except the naked relation they have to God as their Creator, and that's as good as none, without the new creation. If they have nothing but this to plead for their salvation, the Devil hath as much to plead as they. It's the new creature that brings the first creation into repute again with God.