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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.
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1Doth Christ live for ever in Heaven to present his blood to God in the way of intercession for believers? How sad then is their case, that have no interest in Christs blood; but instead of its pleading for them cries to God against them, as the despisers and abusers of it! Every unbeliever despises it. The Apostate treads it underfoot. He that is an intercessor for some, will be an accuser of others. To be guilty of a mans blood, is sad; but to have the blood of Jesus accusing, and crying to God against a soul, is unspeakably terrible. Surely when he shall make inquisition for blood, when the day of his vengeance is come, he will make it appear by the Judgements he will execute, that this is a sin never to be expiated; but vengeance shall pursue the sinner to the bottom of Hell. Ah what do men and women do, in rejecting the gracious offers of Christ! What, tread upon a Saviour! and cast contempt by unbelief and hardness of heart upon their only remedy! I remember I have read of an harlot that killed her child, and said that it smiled upon her when she went to stab it. Sinner, doth not Christ smile upon thee, yearn upon thee in the Gospel, and wilt thou as it were stab him to the heart, by thine infidelity! Woe, and alas for that man, against whom this blood cries in Heave•.
1Doth Christ live for ever in Heaven to present his blood to God in the way of intercession for believers? How sad then is their case, that have no interest in Christs blood; but instead of its pleading for them cries to God against them, as the despisers and abusers of it! Every unbeliever despises it. The Apostate treads it underfoot. He that is an intercessor for some, will be an accuser of others. To be guilty of a mans blood, is sad; but to have the blood of Jesus accusing, and crying to God against a soul, is unspeakably terrible. Surely when he shall make inquisition for blood, when the day of his vengeance is come, he will make it appear by the Judgements he will execute, that this is a sin never to be expiated; but vengeance shall pursue the sinner to the bottom of Hell. Ah what do men and women do, in rejecting the gratious offers of Christ! What, tread upon a Saviour! and cast contempt by unbelief and hardness of heart upon their only remedy! I remember I have read of an harlot that kill'd her child, and said that it smiled upon her when she went to stab it. Sinner, doth not Christ smile upon thee, yearn upon thee in the Gospel, and wilt thou as it were stab him to the heart, by thine infideliy! Wo, and alas for that man, against whom this blood cries in Heave.