The Fountain of Life Opened

The truth of this Proposition will be made out, by a double consideration of the Doctrine of Christ.

First, Let it be considered absolutely, and then these lovely properties with which it is naturally clothed; will render it superior to all other Sciences and Studies.

First, Let it be considered absolutely, and then these lovely properties with which it is naturally cloathed; will render it superiour to all other Sciences and Studies.

First, The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the very marrow and §1Kernel of all the Scriptures:¹ the scope and centre of all Divine revelations: both Testaments meet in Christ. The Ceremonial Law is full of Christ; and all the Gospel full of Christ: the blessed lines of both Testaments meet in him▪ and how they both harmonize, and sweetly concente• in Jesus Christ; it is the chief scope of that excellent Epistle to the Hebrews, to discover: for we may call that Epistle, The sweet Harmony of both Testaments: this argues the unspeakable excellency of this Doctrine, ⟨p. 4⟩the knowledge whereof must needs therefore be a Key to unlock the greatest part of the Sacred Scriptures: for it is in the understanding of Scripture, much as it is in the knowledge men have in Logic and Philosophy: if a Scholar once come to understand the bottom principle, upon which as upon its hinge the controversy turns; the through knowledge of that principle shall carry him through the whole controversy, and furnish him with a solution to every argument; even so the right knowledge of Jesus Christ, like a clew leads you through the whole Labyrinth of the Scriptures.