A39663:811
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 1.
1How great is their sin and misery who continue in bondage to sin and Satan, and refuse the Government of Christ! Who had rather sit under the shadow of that bramble, than under the sweet and powerful government of Christ. Satan writes his Laws in the blood of his Subjects, grinds them with cruel oppression. Wears them out with bondage to divers Lusts: and rewards their service with everlasting misery. And yet how few are weary of it, and willing to come over to Christ! Behold, (said one of Christs Heralds) Christ is in the field:2 sent of God to recover his right, and your liberty: His Royal Standard is pitched in the Gospel, and proclamation made; that if any poor sinners weary of the Devils Government, and ⟨p. 203⟩laden with the miserable chains of his Spiritual bondage, (so as these Irons of his sins, enter into his very soul, to afflict it with the sense of them) shall thus come and repair to Christ: he shall have protection from Gods Justice, the Devils wrath, and sins dominion; in a word, he shall have rest, and that glorious. Isai. 11.10.
1How great is their sin and misery who continue in bondage to sin and Satan, and refuse the Government of Christ! Who had rather sit under the shadow of that bramble, than under the sweet and powerful government of Christ. Satan writes his Laws in the blood of his Subjects, grinds them with cruel oppression. Wears them out with bondage to divers Lusts: and rewards their service with everlasting misery. And yet how few are weary of it, and willing to come over to Christ! Behold, (said one of Christs Heralds) Christ is in the field:2