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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.
And for you, Dear Cousin, as it becomes a daughter of Sarah; let your soul be adorned with the excellencies of Christ, and beauties of holiness. A King from Heaven makes suit for your love. If he espouse your soul now, he will fetch it home to himself at death; in his Chariot of salvation; and great shall be your joy, when the Marriage of the Lamb is come. Look often upon Christ in this glass; he is fairer than the Children of men. View him believingly, and you cannot but like and love him.1 For (as one well saith) Love when it seeth, cannot but cast out its spirit and strength upon amiable objects; and things love worthy. And what fairer thing than Christ! Oh fair Sun, and fair Moon, and fair Stars, and fair flowers, and fair Roses, and fair Lilies, and fair Creatures: but oh ten thousand, thousand times fairer Lord Jesus! alas, I wronged him, in making the comparison this way. O black Sun and Moon; but oh fair Lord Jesus! O black Flowers, and black ⟨image 5⟩Lilies, and Roses; but O fair, fair, ever fair Lord Jesus! O all fair things, black, deformed and without beauty; when ye are set beside the fairest Lord Jesus. O black Heavens, but O fair Christ! O black Angels but O surpassingly fair Lord Jesus!
- 1Ep. S.R.
I hope you both are agreed with Christ, according to the Articles of peace propounded to you in the Gospel; and that you are every day driving on Salvation work, betwixt him and you in your family, and in your Closets.
And now my Dear Friends, if these discoveries of Christ, which I humbly offer to your hands; may be any way useful to your souls, to assist them either in obtaining, or in clearing their interest in him; my heart shall rejoice, even mine. For none under Heaven can be more willing, (though many are more able) to help you thither, than is,