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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.
Fifthly, The Lord Jesus providentially protects his people, amidst a world of enemies, and dangers. It was Christ that appeared unto Moses in the flaming bush: and preserved it from being consumed. The bush signified the people of God in Egypt. The fire flaming on it, the exquisite sufferings they there endured. The safety of the bush amidst the flames, the Lords admirable care and protection of his poor suffering ones. None so tenderly careful as Christ. As birds flying, so he defends Jerusalem, Isai. 31.5. (i. e.) as they fly swiftly towards their nests, crying when their young are in danger; so will the Lord preserve his. They are preserved in Christ Jesus, Jude 1. as Noah and his family were in the Ark. Hear how a Worthy of our own expresses himself upon this point.
Fifthly, The Lord Jesus providentially protects his people, amidst a world of enemies, and dangers. It was Christ that appeared unto Moses in the flaming bush: and preserved it from being consumed. The bush signified the people of God in Aegypt. The fire flaming on it, the exquisite sufferings they there endured. The safety of the bush amidst the flames, the Lords admirable care and protection of his poor suffering ones. None so tenderly careful as Christ. As birds flying, so he defends Jerusalem, Isai. 31.5. (i. e.) as they fly swiftly towards their nests, crying when their young are in danger; so will the Lord preserve his. They are preserved in Christ Iesus, Jude 1. as Noah and his family were in the Ark. Hear how a Worthy of our own expresses himself upon this point.
1That we are at peace in our houses, at rest in our beds; that we have any quiet in our enjoyments, is from hence alone. Whose person would not be defiled or destroyed? whose habitation would not be ruined? whose blood almost would not be shed, if wicked men had power to perpetrate all their conceived sin? It may be the ruin of some of us hath been conceived a thousand times. We are beholding to this providence of obstructing sin, for our lives, our families, our estates, our liberties, and whatsoever is or may be dear to us. For may we not say sometimes with the Psalmist,