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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.
But to the ingenious and candid Reader, I owe satisfaction for the obscurity of some parts of this discourse, occasioned partly by the conciseness of the stile, and partly by the mistakes of the Printer.
For the first, I have this only to say, that I was willing to crowd as much matter as I could into this number of sheets in thy hand, that I might therein ease thee, both in thy pains, and purse. I confess these Sermons were Preached in a more relaxed stile, and most of these things were enlarged in the Pulpit, which are designedly contracted in the Press; that the Volume might not swell above the ability of common Readers. And it was my purpose at first to have comprised the second part, viz. the Application of the Redemption that is with Christ, unto sinners, in one Volume; which occasioned the contraction of this; but that making a just Volume it self, must await another season to see the light. If the Reader will be but a little the more intent, and considerate in reading, this conciseness will turn to his advantage.
For the first, I have this only to say, that I was willing to crowd as much matter as I could into this number of sheets in thy hand, that I might therein ease thee, both in thy pains, and purse. I confess these Sermons were Preached in a more relaxed stile, and most of these things were inlarged in the Pulpit, which are designedly contracted in the Press; that the Volume might not swell above the ability of common Readers. And it was my purpose at first to have comprised the second part, viz. the Application of the Redemption that is with Christ, unto sinners, in one Volume; which occasioned the contraction of this; but that making a just Volume it self, must await another season to see the light. If the Reader will be but a little the more intent, and considerate in reading, this conciseness will turn to his advantage.
And for the mistakes that have happened in the Press, they are not (for the most part) very material; and the principal ones are collected to your hand; which being corrected before you read, the obscurity which is objected, will in great part be thereby removed.