The Fountain of Life Opened

ISAI. LIII.VII. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted; yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a Lamb to the slaughter, and as a Sheep before her Shearers is dumb; so he opened not his mouth.

HOW our Lord Jesus Christ carried on the work of our Redemption in his humbled state, both in his incarnation, life and death, hath in part been discovered in the former Sermons. I have showed you the kind or nature of that death he died: and am now engaged by the method proposed, to open the manner of his death. The solitariness or loneliness of Christ in his sufferings, was the subject of the last Sermon. The patience and meekness of Christ in his sufferings, comes in order to be opened in this.

HOW our Lord Jesus Christ carried on the work of our Redemption in his humbled state, both in his incarnation, life and death, hath in part been discovered in the former Sermons. I have shewed you the kind or nature of that death he died: and am now engaged by the method proposed, to open the manner of his death. The solitariness or loneliness of Christ in his sufferings, was the subject of the last Sermon. The patience and meekness of Christ in his sufferings, comes in order to be opened in this.

¹This Chapter treats wholly of the sufferings of Christ; and the blessed fruits thereof. Hornebeck tells us of a Learned Jew that ingeniously confessed this very Chapter converted him to the Christian Faith. And such delight he had in it, that he read it more than a thousand times over. Such is the clearness of this Prophecy, that he who Penned it, is deservedly styled the Evangelical Prophet. I cannot allow time to analyze the Chapter, but my work lying in the seventh verse, I shall speak to these two branches or pars of it, viz. The grievous sufferings of Christ, and the glorious ornament he put upon them.