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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 3.
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Fourthly, Though God forsook Christ, yet at that time he could justify God. So you read Psal. 22.2, 3. O my God, (saith he) I cry in the day time; but thou hearest not, and ⟨p. 459⟩in the night season, and am not silent; but thou art holy. Is not thy spirit according to thy measure, framed like Christs in this? Canst thou not say even when he writes bitter things against thee, he is a holy, faithful, and good God for all this. I am deserted, but not wronged. There is not one drop of injustice, in all the Sea of my sorrows. Though he condemn me, I must and will Justify him. This also is Christ-like.
Fourthly, Though God forsook Christ, yet at that time he could justifie God. So you read Psal. 22.2, 3. O my God, (saith he) I cry in the day time; but thou hearest not, and ⟨p. 459⟩in the night season, and am not silent; but thou art holy. Is not thy spirit according to thy measure, framed like Christs in this? Canst thou not say even when he writes bitter things against thee, he is a holy, faithful, and good God for all this. I am deserted, but not wronged. There is not one drop of injustice, in all the Sea of my sorrows. Though he condemn me, I must and will Justifie him. This also is Christ-like.
Fifthly, Though God took from Christ all visible and sensible comforts, inward, as well as outward; yet Christ subsisted by faith in the absence of them all. His desertion put him upon the acting of his faith. My God, my God, are words of faith. The words of one that rolls upon his God. And is it not so with you too? Sense of love is gone, sweet sights of God shut up in a dark cloud; well what then? Must thy hands presently hang down, and thy soul give up all its hopes? What! is there no faith to relieve in this case? Yes, yes, and blessed be God for faith. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth the voice of his servants, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light; let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay himself upon his God,