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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.
A Fourth Argument. And yet to move and engage the Fathers care and love for them, he subjoins another great consideration in the very next words, drawn from the danger he leaves them in. But these are in the world. The world is a sinful, infecting, and unquiet place: it lies in wickedness, and a hard thing it will be for such poor, weak, imperfect creatures to escape the pollutions of it. Or if they do, yet the troubles, persecutions, and strong oppositions of it they cannot escape. Seeing therefore I must leave thine own dear children as well as mine, and those from whom my glory is to rise; in the midst of a sinful, troublesome, dangerous world, ⟨p. 257⟩where they can neither move backward nor forward without danger of sin, or ruin: O since the case stands so, look after them, provide for them, and take special care for them all. Consider who they are, and where I leave them. They are thy children, to be left in a strange Country. Thy Soldiers, in the Enemies quarters. Thy Sheep, in the midst of Wolves. Thy precious Treasure among Thieves.
A Fourth Argument. And yet to move and engage the Fathers care and love for them, he subjoins another great consideration in the very next words, drawn from the danger he leaves them in. But these are in the world. The world is a sinful, infecting, and unquiet place: it lies in wickedness, and a hard thing it will be for such poor, weak, imperfect creatures to escape the pollutions of it. Or if they do, yet the troubles, persecutions, and strong oppositions of it they cannot escape. Seeing therefore I must leave thine own dear children as well as mine, and those from whom my glory is to rise; in the midst of a sinful, troublesom, dangerous world, ⟨p. 257⟩where they can neither move backward nor forward without danger of sin, or ruine: O since the case stands so, look after them, provide for them, and take special care for them all. Consider who they are, and where I leave them. They are thy children, to be left in a strange Country. Thy Souldiers, in the Enemies quarters. Thy Sheep, in the midst of Wolves. Thy pretious Treasure among Thieves.