A39663:833
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.
1First, He supports the world, and all creatures in it, by his power. My Father works hitherto, and I work. Joh. 5.17. And in him (that is in Christ) all things consist. Col. 1.17. It's a considerable part of Christs glory to have a whole world of creatures owing their beings and hourly conservations to him. The parts of the world are not coupled and fastened together as the parts of an house, whose beams are pinned and nailed to each other; but rather as several rings of Iron, which hang together by the virtue of a lodestone. This goodly fabric was raised to the foundation, when sin entered, and had tumbled into everlasting confusion, had not Christ stepped in to shore up the reeling world. For the sakes of his redeemed that inhabit it, he doth, and will prop it by his omnipotent power. And when he hath gathered all his Elect out of it, into the Kingdom above; then will he set fire to the four quarters of it, and it shall lye in white ashes. Mean while, he is given for a Covenant to the people, to establish the earth. Isai. 49.8.
1First, He supports the world, and all creatures in it, by his power. My Father works hitherto, and I work. Joh. 5.17. And in him (that is in Christ) all things consist. Col. 1.17. It's a considerable part of Christs glory to have a whole world of creatures oweing their beings and hourly conservations to him. The parts of the world are not coupled and fastned together as the parts of an house, whose beams are pinn'd and nail'd to each other; but rather as several rings of Iron, which hang together by the vertue of a loadstone. This goodly fabrick was raised to the foundation, when sin entred, and had tumbled into everlasting confusion, had not Christ stept in to shore up the reeling world. For the sakes of his redeemed that inhabit it, he doth, and will prop it by his omnipotent power. And when he hath gathered all his Elect out of it, into the Kingdom above; then will he set fire to the four quarters of it, and it shall lye in white ashes. Mean while, he is given for a Covenant to the people, to establish the earth.