A39663:1767
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, As his pains were sharp, so they were universal, not affecting one but every part. They seized every member. From head to foot no member was free from torture. For as his head was wounded with thorns, his back with bloody lashes, his side with a spear, his hands and feet with nails. So every other part was stretched and distended beyond its natural length, by hanging upon that cruel engine of torment the Cross. And as every member, so every particular sense was afflicted, his sight with vile wretches, cruel murderers that stood about him. His hearing with horrid blasphemies, belched out against him. His taste with vinegar and gall, which they gave to aggravate his misery: his smell, with that filthy Golgotha where he was crucified, and his feeling with exquisite pains in every part. So that he was not only sharply, but universally tormented.
Secondly, As his pains were sharp, so they were universal, not affecting one but every part. They seized every member. From head to foot no member was free from torture. For as his head was wounded with thorns, his back with bloody lashes, his side with a spear, his hands and feet with nails. So every other part was stretched and distended beyond its natural length, by hanging upon that cruel engine of torment the Cross. And as every member, so every particular sence was afflicted, his sight with vile wretches, cruel murderers that stood about him. His hearing with horrid blasphemies, belcht out against him. His tast with vinegar and gall, which they gave to aggravate his misery: his smell, with that filthy Golgotha where he was crucified, and his feeling with exquisite pains in every part. So that he was not only sharply, but universally tormented.
Thirdly, These universal pains were continual, not by fits, but without any intermission. He had not a moments ease by the cessation of pains. Wave came upon wave, one grief driving on another, ⟨p. 467⟩till all Gods waves and billows had gone over him. To be in extremity of pain, and that without a moments intermission, will quickly pull down the stoutest nature in the world.