A39663:1720
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.
For though all comfortable sights of God and sense of love were obstructed, yet you see his soul cleaves fiducially to God for all that. My God, &c. Though sense and feeling spake as well as Faith; Yet Faith speaks first, my God, before sense speaks a word of his forsaking. His Faith prevented the complaint of sense and though sense comes in afterward with a word of complaint, yet here are two words of Faith, to one of Sense. It is, my God, my God, and but one word of forsaking. As his Faith spake first, so it spake twice when sense and feeling spake but once. Yea, and as Faith spake first, and twice as much as sense, so it spake more confidently than Sense did. He lays a confident claim to God as his God; my God, my God, and only Queries about his forsaking of him; why hast thou forsaken me? This is spoken more dubiously, the former most confidently.
For though all comfortable sights of God and sence of love were obstructed, yet you see his soul cleaves fiducially to God for all that. My God, &c. Though sense and feeling spake as well as Faith; Yet Faith speaks first, my God, before sence speaks a word of his forsaking. His Faith prevented the complaint of sence and though sence comes in afterward with a word of complaint, yet here are two words of Faith, to one of Sence. It is, my God, my God, and but one word of forsaking. As his Faith spake first, so it spake twice when sence and feeling spake but once. Yea, and as Faith spake first, and twice as much as sence, so it spake more confidently than Sence did. He lays a confident claim to God as his God; my God, my God, and only Queries about his forsaking of him; why hast thou forsaken me? This is spoken more dubiously, the former most confidently.
To be short, His Faith laid hold on God, under a most suitable Title, or Attribute, Eli, Eli, my strong one, my strong one, q. d. O thou with whom is infinite and everlasting strength, thou that hast hitherto supported my Man-hood, and according to thy promise upheld thy Servant; what, wilt thou now forsake me? My strong one I lean upon thee. To these supports and refuges of Faith this desertion shut up Christ. By these things he stood ⟨p. 453⟩