A39663:1641
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.
First, The Matter or Substance of the Promise made by Christ,§1 viz, that he shall be with him in Paradise. By Paradise he means Heaven it self, which is here shadowed to us by a place of delight and pleasure. This is the receptacle of gracious souls when separated from their bodies. And that Paradise signifies Heaven it self, and not a third place, as some of the Fathers fondly imagined, is evident from, 2 Cor. 12.2, 4. where the Apostle calls the same place by the names of the third Heaven, and Paradise. This is the place of blessedness, designed for the people of God: so you find Rev. 2.7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God: (i. e.) to have the fullest and most intimate communion with Jesus Christ in Heaven. And this is the substance of Christs promise to the Thief. Thou (i. e.) thou in spirit, or thou in thy noblest part, thy soul; which here bears the name of the whole person; thou shalt be with me in Paradise.
First, The Matter or Substance of the Promise made by Christ,§1 viz, that he shall be with him in Praradise. By Paradise he means Heaven it self, which is here shadowed to us by a place of delight and pleasure. This is the receptacle of gratious souls when separated from their bodies. And that Paradise signifies Heaven it self, and not a third place, as some of the Fathers fondly imagined, is evident from, 2 Cor. 12.2, 4. where the Apostle calls the same place by the names of the third Heaven, and Paradise. This is the place of blessedness, designed for the people of God: so you find Rev. 2.7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God: (i. e.) to have the fullest and most intimate communion with Jesus Christ in Heaven. And this is the substance of Christs promise to the Thief. Thou (i. e.) thou in spirit, or thou in thy noblest part, thy soul; which here bears the name of the whole person; thou shalt be with me in Paradise.