A39663:1214
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.
In this Paragraph we have two parts (viz.) the Lamentation of the Daughters of Jerusalem for Christ, and Christs reply to them.
In this Paragraph we have two parts (viz.) the Lamentation of the Daughters of Ierusalem for Christ, and Christs reply to them.
First, The Lamentation of the Daughters of Jerusalem for §1Christ. Concerning them, we briefly enquire who they were, and why they mourned.
First, The Lamentation of the Daughters of Ierusalem for §1Christ. Concerning them, we briefly enquire who they were, and why they mourned.
First, 1Who they were? The text calls them Daughters (i. e.) Inhabitants of Jerusalem. For it is an Hebraism as Daughters of Zion, Daughters of Israel. And it's like the greatest part of them were women: and they were many of them; a troop of mourners that followed Christ out of the City, towards the place of his execution, with Lamentations and Wailings. What the principle and ground of these their Lamentations was, is not agreed upon by those that have pondered the story.2 Some are of opinion, their Tears and Lamentations, were but the effects and fruits of their more tender and ingenious natures: which were moved and melted with so tragical and sad a spectacle,3