A39663:558
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.
1If you ask what can we do to put our selves into the way of the spirit, in order to such a cure?
- 1Quest.
1I say that though you cannot do any thing that can make the Gospel effectual, yet the spirit of God can make those means you are capable of using effectual, if he please to concur with them. And it is a certain truth, that your inability to do what is above your power, doth no way excuse you from doing what is within the compass of your power to do. I know, no act that is saving, can be done without the concurrence of special grace, yea, and no act that hath a remote order and tendency thereunto, without a more general concourse of Gods assistance; but herein he is not behind hand with you. Let me therefore advise.
- 1Sol.Soll.
First, That you diligently attend upon an able, faithful and searching ministry. Neglect no opportunity God affords you, for how know you but that may be the time of mercy to your souls: If he that lay so many years at the Pool of Bethesda, had been wanting but that hour when the Angel came down and troubled the waters, he had not been healed.
First, That you dilligently attend upon an able, faithful and searching ministry. Neglect no opportunity God affords you, for how know you but that may be the time of mercy to your souls: If he that lay so many years at the Pool of Bethesda, had been wanting but that hour when the Angel came down and troubled the waters, he had not been healed.