A39663:1483
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 look as Christ in Job. 16.4. obviates all future offences his Disciples might take at sufferings for his sake, by telling them before hand, what they must expect. These things (saith he) I ⟨image 218⟩told you, that when the time shall come ye may remember that I told you of them. So he foreknowing what himself must suffer, and had agreed so to do, he bare those sufferings with singular Patience. Jesus therefore knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said unto them, whom seek ye? Joh. 18.4.
Now look as Christ in Iob. 16.4. obviates all future offences his Disciples might take at sufferings for his sake, by telling them before hand, what they must expect. These things (saith he) I ⟨image 218⟩told you, that when the time shall come ye may remember that I told you of them. So he foreknowing what himself must suffer, and had agreed so to do, he bare those sufferings with singular Patience. Iesus therefore knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth and said unto them, whom seek ye? Joh. 18.4.
Fourthly, As his patience sprang from his foreknowledge of his sufferings; so from his Faith which he exercised under all that he suffered in this world. His Faith looked through all those black and dismal clouds, to the joy proposed, Heb. 12.2. He knew that though Pilate condemned, God would Justify him,