A39663:411
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.
Inference 1.
If Jesus Christ did wholly set himself apart for believers,1 How reasonable is it, that believers should Consecrate and set themselves apart wholly for Christ! Is he all for us, and shall we be nothing for him? What he was, he was for you. What ever he did, was done for you. And all that he suffered,2 was suffered for you; Oh then, I beseech you Brethren by the mercies of God, present your Bodies (i. e. your whole selves, for so body is there Synecdochically put to signify the ⟨p. 76⟩whole person) I say present your bodies, a living Sacrifice, holy acceptable to God; which is your reasonable Service, Rom. 12.1. As your good was Christs end, so let his glory be your end. Let Christ be the end of your conversation, Heb. 13.7. As Christ could say to me to live, is you; So, do you say for us to live is Christ, Phil. 1.21. O that all who profess Faith in Christ, could subscribe Cordially to that profession, Rom. 14.8. None of us liveth to himself, and no man dyeth to himself, but whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to to the Lord: so then whether we live or die, we are the Lords. This is to be a Christian indeed. What is a Christian, but an holy dedicated thing to the Lord? And what greater evidence can there be that Christ set himself apart for you, than your setting your selves apart for him?