A39663:775
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.
Hence we infer the impossibility of their Salvation that know not Christ, 1nor have interest in his blood. Neither Heathens nor merely nominal Christians can inherit. I know some are very indulgent to the Heathen, and many formal Christians are but too much so to themselves: but union by faith with Jesus Christ, is the only way revealed in Scripture by which we hope to come to the heavenly inheritance. I know it seems hard, that such brave men as some of the Heathens were, should be damned: but the Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith. And it is the common suffrage of modern sound Divines, that no man by the sole conduct of nature, without the ⟨p. 190⟩knowledge of Christ, can be saved. There is but one way to glory, for all the world. Joh. 14.6. No man cometh to the Father but by me. Gal. 3.14. The blessing of Abraham comes upon the Gentiles through faith. Scripture asserts the impossibility of being, or doing any thing that is truly evangelically good out of Christ. Joh. 15.5. Without me ye can do nothing; and Heb. 11.6. Without faith it is impossible to please God.
Hence we infer the impossibility of their Salvation that know not Christ,