A39663:2280
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.
Secondly, By your afflictions your corruptions are not only clogged, ⟨p. 623⟩but purged. By these God drys up and consumes that spring of sin, that defiles your lives, Esa. 27.9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away sin. God orders your wants to kill your wantonness. And makes your poverty poison to your pride. They are Gods Physic, to purge ill humours out of your souls. When they fall by the sword, and by famine, and by captivity, and by spoil, it is to try them and to purge them, 1and to make them white. They are both purges and Lavatories to your souls. Others have the same afflictions that you have, but they do not work on them as on you; they are to you as fire for purging, and water for cleansing; and yet shall not your lives be clean? It's true (as one well observes upon that place of Daniel) Christ is the only Lavatory, and his blood the only fountain to wash away sin. But in the virtue and efficacy of that blood sanctified afflictions are cleansers, and purgers too.
Secondly, By your afflictions your corruptions are not only clogged, ⟨p. 623⟩but purged. By these God drys up and consumes that spring of sin, that defiles your lives, Esa. 27.9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away sin. God orders your wants to kill your wantonness. And makes your poverty poison to your pride. They are Gods Physick, to purge ill humours out of your souls. When they fall by the sword, and by famine, and by captivity, and by spoil, it is to try them and to purge them, 1and to make them white. They are both purges and Lavatories to your souls. Others have the same afflictions that you have, but they do not work on them as on you; they are to you as fire for purging, and water for cleansing; and yet shall not your lives be clean? It's true (as one well observes upon that place of Daniel) Christ is the only Lavatory, and his blood the only fountain to wash away sin. But in the virtue and efficacy of that blood sanctified afflictions are cleansers, and purgers too.