A39663:1114
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.
1Fifthly, He left Christ in most Heavenly and excellent employment, when he went to make this soul undoing bargain. For if he went away from the Table as some think, then he left Christ instituting and administering those Heavenly Signs of his body and blood. There he saw, or might have seen the bloody work he was going about; acted as in a figure before him. If he sate out that Ordinance, as others suppose he did. Then he left Christ singing an Heavenly hymn, and preparing to go where Judas was preparing to meet him. When the Lord Jesus was in the most serious and heavenly exercise, the wretch slinked away from him into the City, or else went under pretence to buy some necessaries. But his design was ⟨p. 301⟩not to buy, but to sell, whatever his pretences were. Nay,
1Fifthly, He left Christ in most Heavenly and excellent imployment, when he went to make this soul undoing bargain. For if he went away from the Table as some think, then he left Christ instituting and administring those Heavenly Signs of his body and blood. There he saw, or might have seen the bloody work he was going about; acted as in a figure before him. If he sate out that Ordinance, as others suppose he did. Then he left Christ singing an Heavenly hymn, and preparing to go where Iudas was preparing to meet him. When the Lord Jesus was in the most serious and heavenly exercise, the wretch slinked away from him into the City, or else went under pretence to buy some necessaries. But his design was ⟨p. 301⟩not to buy, but to sell, whatever his pretences were. Nay,
- 1Ha•d dubiè è Bethania abii•, ubi Dominum tunc morabitu•; & vel clam se aliis subduxit in urhem; vel sub pretextu curandi necessaria Par.