A39663:1469
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.
Now all this, and much more than this; meeting at once upon an innocent, and dignified person. One that was greater than all. That lay in the bosom of God. And from eternity had his smiles and honours. Upon one that could have crushed all his enemies as a moth: I say for him to bear all this without the least discomposure of Spirit, or breach of Patience, is the highest triumph of Patience that ever was in the world. It was one of the greatest wonders of that wonderful day.
Secondly, And that is the next thing we have to consider, even this almighty patience and unpatterned meekness of Christ, supporting such a burden with such evenness and steadiness of spirit. Christian patience or the grace Patience, is an ability or power to suffer hard and heavy things, according to the will of God.
Secondly, And that is the next thing we have to consider, even this almighty patience and unpattern'd meekness of Christ, supporting such a burden with such evenness and steadiness of spirit. Christian patience or the grace Patience, is an ability or power to suffer hard and heavy things, according to the will of God.
It is a power, and a glorious power that strengthens the suffering Soul to bear. It is our passive fortitude, Col. 1.11. Strengthened with all might, according to the glorious power, unto all patience, and long suffering with Joyfulness, (i. e.) strengthened with a might or power, corresponding to the glorious power of God himself. Or such as might appear to be the proper impress and image of that divine power, which is both its principle and pattern. For the Patience which God exercises towards sinners that daily wrong and load him, is called power, and great power,