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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.
(4.) If thou be a loose and careless professor of Christ; I beseech thee, let the things thou shalt read in this Treatise of Christ, convince, shame, and reclaim thee, from thy vain conversation. Here thou wilt find how contrary thy conversation is, to the grand designs of the death, and resurrection of Christ. O methinks, as thou art reading the deep humiliation and unspeakable sorrows Christ underwent, for the expiating of sin, thou shouldst thenceforth look upon sin as a tender Child would upon that knife, that stabbed his Father to the heart! Thou shouldst never whet, and sharpen it again, to wound the Son of God afresh. To such loose, and careless professors, I particularly recommend the last general use of this discourse, containing many great motives to reformation, and strict Godliness, in all that call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.
(4.) If thou be a loose and careless professor of Christ; I beseech thee, let the things thou shalt read in this Treatise of Christ, convince, shame, and reclaim thee, from thy vain conversation. Here thou wilt find how contrary thy conversation is, to the grand designes of the death, and resurrection of Christ. O methinks, as thou art reading the deep humiliation and unspeakable sorrows Christ underwent, for the expiating of sin, thou shouldst thenceforth look upon sin as a tender Child would upon that knife, that stab'd his Father to the heart! Thou shouldst never whet, and sharpen it again, to wound the Son of God afresh. To such loose, and careless professors, I particularly recommend the last general use of this discourse, containing many great motives to reformation, and strict Godliness, in all that call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.
(5.) If thou hast been a profane and vain person, but now art pardoned, and dost experience the super-abounding riches of grace; my request to thee is, that thou love Jesus Christ with a more fervent love, than ever yet thou hadst for him. Here thou wilt find many great incentives, many mighty arguments; to such a love of Christ; poor soul! consider what thou hast been, what the morning of thy life was. What treasures of guilt, thou laidst up in ⟨image 10⟩