A39663:836
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.
Fourthly, Jesus Christ limits the creatures in their acting, assigning them their boundaries, and lines of liberty; to which they may, but beyond it cannot go. Rev. 2.10. Fear none of those things that ye shall suffer, behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison; and ye shall have tribulation for ten days. They would have cast them into their graves, but it shall only be into prisons: they would have stretched out their hands upon them all, no, but only some of them shall be exposed. They would have kept them there perpetually, no, it must be but for ten days. Ezek. 22.6. Behold the Princes of Israel were in thee, every one to their power to shed blood. They went as far as they had power to go, not as far as they had will to go. Four hundred and thirty years were determined upon the people of God in Egypt, and then, even in that very night, God brought them forth; for then the time of the promise was come, Acts 7.17.
Fourthly, Jesus Christ limits the creatures in their acting, assigning them their boundaries, and lines of liberty; to which they may, but beyond it cannot go. Rev. 2.10. Fear none of those things that ye shall suffer, behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison; and ye shall have tribulation for ten daies. They would have cast them into their graves, but it shall only be into prisons: they would have stretcht out their hands upon them all, no, but only some of them shall be exposed. They would have kept them there perpetually, no, it must be but for ten daies. Ezek. 22.6. Behold the Princes of Israel were in thee, every one to their power to shed blood. They went as far as they had power to go, not as far as they had will to go. Four hundred and thirty years were determined upon the people of God in Aegypt, and then, even in that very night, God brought them forth; for then the time of the promise was come, Acts 7.17.