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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.
Conscience can demand no more for its satisfaction, nor will it take less, than God demands for his satisfaction. And in this blood is enough to give both satisfaction.
Secondly, As there is sufficient Efficacy in this blood, to expiate the greatest guilt; so it's as manifest, that the virtue and efficacy of it, is intended and designed by God for the Use of believing sinners. Such blood as this was shed without doubt for some weighty end. That some might be the better for it. Who they are for whom it is intended, is plain enough from Acts 13.39. And by him all that believe, are justified from all things; from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses.
Secondly, As there is sufficient Efficacy in this blood, to expiate the greatest guilt; so it's as manifest, that the vertue and efficacy of it, is intended and designed by God for the Use of believing sinners. Such blood as this was shed without doubt for some weighty end. That some might be the better for it. Who they are for whom it is intended, is plain enough from Acts 13.39. And by him all that believe, are justified from all things; from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses.
That the remission of the sins of believers was the great thing designed in the pouring out of this precious blood of Christ, appears from all the Sacrifices that figured it to the ancient Church. The shedding of that Typical blood, spake a design of pardon. And the putting of their hands upon the head of the Sacrifice, spake the way and Method of believing, by which that blood was then applied to them in that way: and is still applied to us in a more excellent way. Had no pardon been intended, no Sacrifices had been appointed.