A39663:869
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, Observe the order in which providence sends you your mercies. See how one is linked strangely to another; and is a door to let in many. Sometimes one mercy is introductive to a thousand.
Fifthly and Laslty, Observe the constancy of them; they are new every morning. Lam. 3.23. How assiduously doth God visit thy soul and body! Think with thy self, if there were but a suspension of the care of Christ for one hour, that hour would be thy ruin. Thousands of evils stand round about thee, watching when Christ will but remove his eye from thee; that they may rush in, and devour thee.
Fifthly and Laslty, Observe the constancy of them; they are new every morning. Lam. 3.23. How assiduously doth God visit thy soul and body! Think with thy self, if there were but a suspension of the care of Christ for one hour, that hour would be thy ruine. Thousands of evils stand round about thee, watching when Christ will but remove his eye from thee; that they may rush in, and devour thee.
Could we thus study the providence of Christ in all the good, and evil that befalls us in the world; then in every state we should be content, Phil. 4.11. Then we should never be stopped, but furthered in our way by all that falls out. Then would our experiences swell to great volumes, which we might carry to Heaven with us. And then should we answer all Christs ends in every state he brings us into. Do this and say,
Could we thus study the providence of Christ in all the good, and evil that befalls us in the world; then in every state we should be content,