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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.
1The death of Christ doubtless contained the greatest, and acutest pains imaginable. Because these pains of Christ alone, were intended to equalize all that misery, which the sin of man deserved, all that pain which the damned shall, and the Elect deserved to feel. Now to have pains meeting at once upon one person, equivalent to all the pains of the damned: Judge you what a plight Christ was in.
- 1Continebat •oenas maximas, q•ia m•seriam illam totam aequabat, qua •ominum pec•a ta mer••antur. Ames. med.
Thirdly, The death of the Cross, was a shameful death. Not only because the crucified were stripped quite naked, and so exposed as spectacles of shame: but mainly, because it was that kind of death which was appointed for the basest, and vilest of men.
Their Free-men when they committed capital crimes, were not condemned to the Cross. No, that was looked upon as the death appointed for slaves.1 Tacitus calls it servile supplicium, the punishment of a slave: and to the same sense Juvenal speaks, pone crucem servo, put the Cross upon the back of a slave. As they had a great esteem of a Free-man,