A39663:72
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.
Look to it (my dear friends) that none of you be found §1Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.
See that you daily grow more Christ-like, by conversing §2with him, as you do, in his precious Ordinances. Let it be with your souls, as it is with a piece of cloth, which receives a deeper dye every time it is dipped into the Fat. If not, you may not expect the continuance of your mercies much longer to you.
See that you daily grow more Christ-like, by conversing §2with him, as you do, in his precious Ordinances. Let it be with your souls, as it is with a piece of cloth, which receives a deeper dye every time it is dipt into the Fat. If not, you may not expect the continuance of your mercies much longer to you.
Get these great truths well digested both in your heads §3and hearts and let the power of them be displayed in your lives. Else the pen of the Scribe, and tongue of the Preacher ⟨image 13⟩are both in vain. These things that so often warmed your hearts from the Pulpit, return now to make a second Impression upon them from the Press. Hereby you will recover and fix those truths, which it's like are in great part already vanished from you. This is the fruit I promise my self from you, and what ever entertainment it meet with from others,