A39663:1023
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.
First, That Christ is the Bread on which our souls live: proper meat and drink for Believers: the most excellent New-Testament food. It's said, Psal. 78.25. man did eat Angels food: He means the manna, that fell from Heaven. Which was so excellent, that if Angels who are the noblest creatures, did live-upon material food; they would choose this above all to feed on. And yet this was but a Type and weak shadow of Christ, on whom Believers feed. Christ makes a royal feast, of his own flesh and blood. Isai. 25.6. all our delicates are in him.
Secondly, It instructs us that the New-Testament is now in its full force, and no substantial alteration can be made in it, since the the Testator is dead; and by his death hath ratified it. So that all ⟨p. 273⟩the excellent promises and blessings of it are now fully confirmed to the believing soul. Heb. 9.16, 17. All these, and many more choice truths are we instructed in by this sign. And all these ways it remembers us of Christ, and helps powerfully to raise, warm, and affect our hearts with that remembrance of him.
Secondly, It instructs us that the New-Testament is now in its full force, and no sustantial alteration can be made in it, since the the Testator is dead; and by his death hath ratified it. So that all ⟨p. 273⟩the excellent promises and blessings of it are now fully confirmed to the believing soul. Heb. 9.16, 17. All these, and many more choice truths are we instructed in by this sign. And all these waies it remembers us of Christ, and helps powerfully to raise, warm, and affect our hearts with that remembrance of him.