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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
Sermon 33 › DOCT. That God in design to heighten the sufferings of Christ to th… › Inference 1.
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Inference 1.
Did God forsake Christ upon the Cross,1 as a punishment to him for our sins; Then it follows, that as often as we have sinned, so oft have we deserved to be forsaken of God. This is the [Greek or Hebrew] just recompense and demerit of Sin. And indeed here lies the principal evil of sin, that it separates betwixt God and the soul. This separation is both the moral evil that is in it, and the penal evil inflicted by the righteous God for it. By sin we depart from God, and as a due punishment of it, God departs from us. This will be the dismal Sentence in the last day, Matth. 25. Depart from me, ye Cursed. Thenceforth there will be a gulf fixed betwixt God and them, Luk. 16.20. No more friendly intercourses with the blessed God for ever. The eternal shriek of the damned is, Woe, and alas, God hath forsaken us for ever more. Ten thousand worlds can no way recompense the loss of one God. Beware sinners how you say to God now, depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways, lest he say, depart from me, you shall never see my face.
Did God forsake Christ upon the Cross,1 as a punishment to him for our sins; Then it follows, that as often as we have sinned, so oft have we deserved to be forsaken of God. This is the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 just recompence and demerit of Sin. And indeed here lies the principal evil of sin, that it separates betwixt God and the soul. This separation is both the moral evil that is in it, and the poenal evil inflicted by the righteous God for it. By sin we depart from God, and as a due punishment of it, God departs from us. This will be the dismal Sentence in the last day,