A39663:1904

The Fountain of Life Opened

Name: The Fountain of Life Opened
Author: John Flavel

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 ...

John Flavel 1630?–1691London: printed for Rob. White, 1673

[32], 630, [14] p. · 259k words · Wing F1162 · ESTC R20462

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Sermon 36 › DOCT. That dying believers are both warranted, and encouraged by Ch… › Diduction 6.

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¹Lastly, I will close all with a word of counsel. Is this the privilege of dying believers to commend their souls into the hands of God. Then as ever you hope for comfort or peace in your last hour, see that your souls be such as may be then fit to be commended into the hands of an holy and just God. See that they be holy souls. God will never accept them, if they be not holy. Without holiness no man shall see God. Heb. 12.24. He that hath this hope, (viz. to see God) purifieth himself even as he is pure, 1 Joh. 3.3. Endeavours after holiness are inseparably connected with all rational expectations of blessedness. Will you put an unclean filthy defiled thing into the pure hand of the most holy God? O see they be holy, and already accepted in the beloved, or woe to them when they take their leaves of those tabernacles they now dwell in. The gracious soul may confidently say then, Lord Jesus, into thy hands I commend my spirit. O let all that can say so then, now say,

¹Lastly, I will close all with a word of counsel. Is this the priviledge of dying believers to commend their souls into the hands of God. Then as ever you hope for comfort or peace in your last hour, see that your souls be such as may be then fit to be commended into the hands of an holy and just God. See that they be holy souls. God will never accept them, if they be not holy. Without holiness no man shall see God. Heb. 12.24. He that hath this hope, (viz. to see God) purifieth himself even as he is pure, 1 Joh. 3.3. Indeavours after holiness are inseparably connected with all rational expectations of blessedness. Will you put an unclean filthy defiled thing into the pure hand of the most holy God? O see they be holy, and already accepted in the beloved, or wo to them when they take their leaves of those tabernacles they now dwell in. The gratious soul may confidently say then, Lord Iesus, into thy hands I commend my spirit. O let all that can say so then, now say,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Flavel 1630?–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

Rob. White

Year

1673

Size

[32], 630, [14] p.

Words

258,941

Catalogue

Wing F1162 · ESTC R20462

Text

EEBO-TCP A39663

Passages

2,314

Sections

387

Title page

The Fountain of Life Opened

Diduction 6.

The THIRTY SEVENTH¹ SERMON.²

DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Jesus Christ was decently interred,¹ by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.

DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Iesus Christ was decently interr'd,¹ by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.

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Diduction 6.

The THIRTY SEVENTH1 SERMON.2

DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Jesus Christ was decently interred,1 by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.

DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Iesus Christ was decently interr'd,1 by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.

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The THIRTY SEVENTH¹ SERMON.²

DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Jesus Christ was decently interred,¹ by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.

DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Iesus Christ was decently interr'd,¹ by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.