A39663:1285
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.
To this the Apostle gives a plain testimony, Phil. 2.8. He became obedient to death, even the death of the Cross: where his humiliation is both specified; he was humbled to death; and aggravated by a most emphatical reduplication, even the death of the Cross. So Act. 5.30. Jesus whom ye slew, and hanged upon a tree, q. d. it did not suffice you to put him to a violent, but you also put him to the most base, vile, and ignominious death: you hanged him on a tree.
To this the Apostle gives a plain testimony, Phil. 2.8. He became obedient to death, even the death of the Cross: where his humiliation is both specified; he was humbled to death; and aggravated by a most emphatical reduplication, even the death of the Cross. So Act. 5.30. Iesus whom ye slew, and hanged upon a tree, q. d. it did not suffice you to put him to a violent, but you also put him to the most base, vile, and ignominious death: you hanged him on a tree.
In this point we will discuss these three particulars, viz. the nature, or kind; the manner, and reasons of Christs death upon the tree.
First, I shall open the kind or nature of this death, by showing §1you that it was a violent, painful, shameful, cursed, slow, and succourless death.
First, I shall open the kind or nature of this death, by shewing