A39663:1784
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.
Inference 1.
1How horrid a thing is Sin! How great is that evil of evils! Which deserves that all this should be inflicted and suffered for the expiation of it!
- 1Infer. 1.
The sufferings of Christ for sin, gives us the true account, and fullest representation of its evil.1 The Law (saith one) is a bright glass▪ wherein we may see the evil of sin; but there is the Red glass of the sufferings of Christ; and in that we may see more of the evil of sin; than if God should let us down to Hell and there we should see all the tortures and torments of the damned. If we should see them▪ how they lie sweltering under Gods wrath there, it were not so much as the beholding of sin, through this Red glass of the sufferings of Christ.
The sufferings of Christ for sin, gives us the true account, and fullest representation of its evil.1 The Law (saith one) is a bright glass▪ wherein we may see the evil of sin; but there is the Red glass of the sufferings of Christ; and in that we may see more of the evl of sin; than if God should let us down to Hell and there we should see all the tortures and torments of the damned. If we should see them how they lie sweltering under Gods wrath there, it were not so much as the beholding of sin, through this Red glass of the sufferings of Christ.