A39663:1763
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.
Here we are to enquire into and consider the extremities and agonies Christ laboured under upon the Cross, which occasioned this sad complaint of thirst. And then make application of it in the several inferences of truth diducible from it.
Now the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross were twofold, viz. his Corporeal, and Spiritual sufferings. We shall open them distinctly, and then show how both these meeting together upon him in their fullness and extremity must needs consume his very radical moisture, and make him cry I thirst. To begin with the first,
Now the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross were twofold, viz. his Corporeal, and Spiritual sufferings. We shall open them distinctly, and then shew how both these meeting together upon him in their fulness and extremity must needs consume his very radical moisture, and make him cry I thirst. To begin with the first,
First, His Corporeal and more external sufferings were exceeding great, acute, and extreme sufferings. For they were sharp, universal, continual, and unrelieved by any inward comfort.
First, His Corporeal and more external sufferings were exceeding great, acute, and extream sufferings. For they were sharp, universal, continual, and unrelieved by any inward comfort.