A39663:1765
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.
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.
1First, They were sharp sufferings. For his body was racked or digged in those parts where sense more eminently dwells. In the hands and feet the veins and sinews meet, and there pain and anguish meet with them. Psal. 22.16. They digged my hands, and my feet. Now Christ by reason of his exact and excellent temper of body had doubtless more quick, tender and delicate senses than other men. His body was so formed that it might be a capacious vessel to take in more sufferings than any other body can. Sense is in some more delicate and tender, and in others dull, and blunt according to the temperament, and vivacity of the body and spirits. But in none as it was in Christ, whose body was miraculously formed on purpose to suffer unparalleled miseries and sorrows in. A body hast thou fitted me. Heb. 10.5. Neither sin, nor sickness had any way enfeebled, or dulled it.
1First, They were sharp sufferings. For his body was racked or digged in those parts where sence more eminently dwells. In the hands and feet the veins and sinews meet, and there pain and anguish meet with them. Psal. 22.16. They digged my hands, and my feet. Now Christ by reason of his exact and excellent temper of body had doubtless more quick, tender and delicate senses than other men. His body was so formed that it might be a capacious vessel to take in more sufferings than any other body can. Sense is in some more delicate and tender, and in others dull, and blunt according to the temperment, and vivacity of the body and spirits. But in none as it was in Christ, whose body was miraculously formed on purpose to suffer unparalelled miseries and sorrows in. A body hast thou fitted me.