The Fountain of Life Opened

It is but one word in the original, but in that one word is contained the sum of all Joy. The very spirits of all divine consolation. The ancient Greeks reckoned it their excellency to speak much in a little. To give a Sea of matter, in a drop of language. What they only sought, is here found. I find some variety (and indeed variety, rather than contrariety) among expositors about the relation of these words.¹ Some are of opinion that the antecedent is the legal ⟨p. 478⟩Types and Ceremonies. And so make this to be the meaning. It is finished: that is, all the Types and Prefigurations that shadowed forth the Redemption of souls by the blood of Christ, are now fulfilled and accomplished. And doubtless as this is in it self a truth, so it's such a truth as may not be excluded, as alien to the true scope and sense of this place.

1. 1Docet in •jus mor•e totum salutis nostrae complementum, & si•gulas parts contineri. His doctrinae annexa est omnium legis rituum abrogatio. Calv.Docet in •jus mor•e totum salutis nostrae complementum, & si•gulas partes contineri. H•is doctrinae annexa est omnium legis rituum abrogatio. Calv.

And though it be objected that many Types and Prefigurations remained at this time unsatisfied, even all that looked to the actual death of Christ, his continuance in the state of the dead, and his resurrection; yet it's easily removed, by considering that they are said to be finished,¹