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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.
Inference 3.
If Christ be the great Prophet and Teacher of the Church,1 it follows, that Prayer is a proper means for the increase of knowledge. Prayer is the Golden Key which unlocks that treasure. When Daniel was to expound that secret which was contained in the Kings Dream, about which the Chaldean Magicians had racked their brains to no purpose; what course doth Daniel take? Why, he went to his house (saith the Text) Dan. 2.17, 18. And made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah his companions: that they would desire mercies of the God of Heaven concerning this secret. And then was the secret revealed to Daniel. 2Luther was wont to say three things make a Divine, Meditation, Temptation, and Prayer. Holy Mr. Bradford was wont to study upon his knees. Those truths that are got by Prayer, leave an unusual sweetness upon the heart. If Christ be our Teacher, it becomes all his Saints to be at his Feet.
If Christ be the great Prophet and Teacher of the Church,1 it follows, that Prayer is a proper means for the increase of knowledge. Prayer is the Goden Key which unlocks that treasure. When Daniel was to expound that secret which was contained in the Kings Dream, about which the Chaldean Magicians had rackt their brains to no purpose; what course doth Daniel take? Why, he went to his house (saith the Text) Dan. 2.17, 18. And made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah his companions: that they would desire mercies of the God of Heaven concerning this secret. And then was the secret revealed to Daniel.