A39663:1292
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.
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,2 so they manifested it, even when they had forfeited their lives, in cutting them off by more honourable kinds of death. This by hanging on the tree, was always accounted most ignominious.3 To this day we say of him that's hanged, he dies the death of a dog. And yet it's said of our Lord Jesus, Heb. 12.2. he not only endured the Cross, but also despised the shame. Obedience to his Fathers will, and zeal for your Salvation, made him digest the shame of it, and despise the baseness that was in it.
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 Iuvenal speaks, pone crucem servo, put the Cross upon the back of a slave. As they had a great esteem of a Free-man,2 so they manifested it, even when they had forfeited their lives, in cutting them off by more honourable kinds of death. This by hanging on the tree, was alwaies accounted most ignominious.3 To this day we say of him that's hanged, he dies the death of a dog. And yet it's said of our Lord Jesus, Heb. 12.2. he not only endured the Cross, but also despised the shame. Obedience to his Fathers will, and zeal for your Salvation, made him digest the shame of it, and despise the baseness that was in it.