A39663:984
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.
Corollary. 3.
1What an excellent pattern is here, for all that have the charge and government of others committed to them; whether Magistrates, Ministers, or Parents: to teach them how to acquit themselves towards their relations, when they come to die.
- 1Cor. 3.
Look upon dying Jesus, see how his care and love to his people flamed out when the time of his departure was at hand. Surely as we are bound to remember our Relations every day, and to ⟨p. 263⟩lay up a stock of prayers for them in the time of our health; so it becomes us to imitate Christ in our earnestness with God for them, when we die. Though we die, our prayers die not with us They out-live us, and those we leave behind us in the world, may reap the benefit of them, when we are turned to dust.
For my own part I must profess before the world that I have a high value for this mercy.