A39663:1722
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.
Secondly, In the next place let us consider the designs, and ends §2of it; which were principally Satisfaction and Sanctification. Satisfaction for those sins of ours which deserved that we should be totally and everlastingly forsaken of God. This is the desert of every sin, and the damned do feel it, and shall to all Eternity. God is gone from them for ever, not essentially, the just God is with them still, the God of power is still with them, the avenging God is ever with them; but the merciful God is gone, and gone for ever. And thus would he have withdrawn himself from every soul that sinned, had not Christ born that punishment for us, in his own soul; if he had not cried, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? we must have howled out this hideous complaint in the lowest Hell for ever, O righteous God, O dreadful, O terrible God, thou hast for ever forsaken me.
Secondly, In the next place let us consider the designs, and ends §2of it; which were principally Satisfaction and Sanctification. Satisfaction for those sins of ours which deserved that we should be totally and everlastingly forsaken of God. This is the desert of every sin, and the damned do feel it, and shall to all Eternity. God is gone from them for ever, not essentially, the just God is with them still, the God of power is still with them, the avenging God is ever with them; but the merciful God is gone, and gone for ever. And thus would he have withdrawn himself from every soul that sinned, had not Christ born that punishment for us, in his own soul; if he had not cryed, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? we must have howled out this hideous complaint in the lowest Hell for ever, O righteous God, O dreadful, O terrible God, thou hast for ever forsaken me.
And as satisfaction was designed in this desertion of Christ, so also was the Sanctification of all the desertions of the Saints designed in it. For he having been forsaken before us, and for us; when ever God forsakes us, that very forsaking of his is sanctified, and thereby turned into a mercy to believers. Hence are all the precious fruits and effects of our desertions. Such are the earnest excitation of the soul to Prayer,