A39663:1864
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.
This commendation made by Christ, turns to the singular profit and advantage of our souls; in as much as Christ by this very prayer,1 hath delivered them into his Fathers hand, as a precious treasure, when ever the time comes that they are to he loosed from the bodies which they now inhabit. Jesus Christ neither lived nor dyed for himself, but for believers. What he did in this very act, refers to them as well as to his own Soul. You must look therefore upon Christ in this last and solemn act of his life, as gathering all the souls of the Elect together, and making a solemn tender of them all, with his own soul to God.
This commendation made by Christ, turns to the singular profit and advantage of our souls; in as much as Christ by this very prayer,1 hath delivered them into his Fathers hand, as a pretious treasure, when ever the time comes that they are to he loosed from the bodies which they now inhabit. Jesus Christ neither lived nor dyed for himself, but for believers. What he did in this very act, refers to them as well as to his own Soul. You must look therefore upon Christ in this last and solemn act of his life, as gathering all the souls of the Elect together, and making a solemn tender of them all, with his own soul to God.
- 1Haec Chisti comrendatio, in ani•arum nostrarum commodum cedebat. Q•i•pe quas ille à corpore quod inhabitavera•t absolutas, quasi quoddam depositum• in Dei viventis manu, ex ora•ione trad•ba•. V•ct. Antioch. in Mark. 9.