A39663:1279
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 text, we have an account of the kind and nature of that death which Christ died: as also of the causes of it, both principal and instrumental.
First, The kind and nature of the death Christ died, which is here described more generally, as a violent death. Ye have slain him: and more particularly, as a most ignominious, cursed, dishonourable death; ye have crucified him.
First, The kind and nature of the death Christ died, which is here described more generally, as a violent death. Ye have slain him: and more particularly, as a most ignominious, cursed, dishonorable death; ye have crucified him.
Secondly, The causes of it are here likewise expressed: and that both principal and instrumental. The principal cause, permitting, ordering, and disposing all things about it, was the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. There was not an action or circumstance, but came under this most wise and holy counsel, and determination of God.
The Instruments effecting it, were their wicked hands. This foreknowledge and counsel of God,