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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.
Thirdly, The cause and motives of this wickedness, how he §3came to attempt, and perpetrate such a villainy. Maldonate the Jesuit criminates the Protestant Divines, for affirming that God had an hand in ordering, and overruling this fact. But we say, that Satan and his own Lust was the impulsive cause of it. That God as it was a wicked treason, permitted it. And as it was a delivering Christ to death,1 was not only the permitter, but the wise and holy director or orderer of it, and by the wisdom of his providence overruled it to the great good, and advantage of the Church; in respect of which happy issue, Judas his treason is called faelix scelus, a happy wickedness. Satan inspired the motion, Luk. 22.3, 4. Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed. Iscariot, and he went his way, &c. his own Lusts like dry tinder kindled presently: his heart was covetous; there was predisposed matter enough for the Devil to work on, so that it was but touch and take. Vers. 25. They covenanted to give him money, and he promised, &c.
Thirdly, The cause and motives of this wickedness, how he §3came to attempt, and perpetrate such a villany. Maldonate the Iesuit criminates the Protestant Divines, for affirming that God had an hand in ordering, and overruling this fact. But we say, that Satan and his own Lust was the impulsive cause of it. That God as it was a wicked treason, permitted it. And as it was a delivering Christ to death,1 was not only the permitter, but the wise and holy director or orderer of it, and by the wisdom of his providence overruled it to the great good, and advantage of the Church; in respect of which happy issue, Iudas his treason is called faelix scelus, a happy wickedness. Satan inspired the motion, Luk. 22.3, 4. Then entred Satan into Judas sirnamed. Iscariot, and he went his way, &c. his own Lusts like dry tinder kindled presently: his heart was covetous; there was predisposed matter enough for the Devil to work on, so that it was but touch and take. Vers. 25. They covenanted to give him mony, and he promised, &c.