A39663:1962

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 37 › DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Jesus Christ was decently inte… › Corollary 5.Sermon 37 › DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Iesus Christ was decently inte… › Corollary 5.

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:1959p. 519

Thirdly, As Gods love will be with you in the Grave, so Gods providence shall take order about your Graves. When it shall be digged for you. And be sure he will not dig your Graves, till you are fit to be put into them. He will bring you thither in the best time, Job 5.26. Thou shalt come to thy Grave as a Shock of Corn in its season. You shall be ripe and ready before God house you there. It's said of David, that after he had served his generation by the will of God, he fell asleep, Acts 13.36. O what a holy and wise will is that will of God, that so orders our death? And how equal is it that our will should be concluded by it.

Thirdly, As Gods love will be with you in the Grave, so Gods providence shall take order about your Graves. When it shall be dig'd for you. And be sure he will not dig your Graves, till you are fit to be put into them. He will bring you thither in the best time, Iob 5.26. Thou shalt come to thy Grave as a Shock of Corn in its season. You shall be ripe and ready before God house you there. It's said of David, that after he had served his generation by the will of God, he fell asleep, Acts 13.36. O what a holy and wise will is that will of God, that so orders our death? And how equal is it that our will should be concluded by it.

:1960p. 519

Fourthly, If you be in Christ, as Gods Covenant holds with you in the Grave, his love is inseparable from your dust, his providence shall give order when it shall be digged for you; so in the next place, his pardons have loosed all the bonds of guilt from you, before you lie down in the Grave. So that you shall not die in your sins. Ah friends, what a comfort is this? That you are the Lords Free-men in the Grave? Sin is a bad bed-fellow, and a worse Grave-fellow. It's a grievous threatening,

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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

The THIRTY EIGHTH SERMON.¹²

DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Jesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,¹ shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.

DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Iesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,¹ shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

The THIRTY EIGHTH SERMON.12

DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Jesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,1 shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.

DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Iesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,1 shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.

Transcription key

The THIRTY EIGHTH SERMON.¹²

DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Jesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,¹ shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.

DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Iesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,¹ shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.