A39663:1385
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.
Inference 7.
Did Pilate give this Title to cast the reproach of his death upon the Jews,1 and clear himself of it. How natural is it to men to transfer the fault of their own actions from themselves to others? 2For when he writes, this is the King of the Jews, he wholly charges them with the crime of crucifying their King: and it is as if ⟨p. 358⟩he had said; hereafter let the blame and fault of this action lye wholly upon your own heads, who have brought the guilt of his blood upon your selves and children.
- 1Infer. 7.
- 2Q. d. Voluiftis ut Regem vestrum crucifigerem, crucifixi: vestra post hac erit ignominia qui hoc à me extorseritis. Calv ad Matth. 27.37.
I am clear, you have extorted it from me. O where shall we find a spirit so ingenious, to take home to it self the shame of its own actions, and charge it self freely with its own guilt? Indeed it's the property of renewed gracious hearts to remember, confess, and freely bewail their own evils,