A39663:2263
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.
Thirdly, But more than this, You have obliged your selves to §3this life of holiness by your own Prayers. How many times have you lifted up your hands to Heaven, and cried with David Psal. 119.5. Oh that my ways were directed to keep thy Statutes. Order my steps in thy Word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me, vers. 133. Were you in earnest with God, when you thus prayed? Did you mean as you said? or did you only complement with God? If your hearts and tongues agreed in this request, doubtless it's as much your Duty to endeavour, as to desire those mercies; and if not, yet do all those prayers stand on record before the Lord, and will be produced against you as witnesses to condemn you, for your hypocrisy and vanity. How often also have you in your Prayers lamented and bewailed your careless and uneven walkings? You have said with Ezra, chap. 9.6. O my God I am ashamed, and even blush to look up unto thee. And do not your confessions oblige you to greater circumspection and care for time to come? Will you confess, and sin? And sin, and confess? Go to God and bewail your evils, and when you have bewailed them, return again to the commission of them? God forbid, you should thus dissemble with God, play with sin, and dye your iniquities with a deeper tincture.
Thirdly, But more than this, You have obliged your selves to §3this life of holiness by your own Prayers. How many times have you lifted up your hands to Heaven, and cryed with David Psal. 119.5. Oh that my waies were directed to keep thy Statutes. Order my steps in thy Word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me, vers. 133. Were you in earnest with God, when you thus prayed? Did you mean as you said? or did you only complement with God? If your hearts and tongues agreed in this request, doubtless it's as much your Duty to endeavour, as to desire those mercies; and if not, yet do all those prayers stand on record before the Lord, and will be produced against you as witnesses to condemn you, for your hypocrisie and vanity. How often also have you in your Prayers lamented and bewailed your careless and uneven walkings? You have said with