A39663:1928
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, Yet though men could bestow little honour upon it, the heavens bestowed several marks of honour upon it. Adorned it with divers Miracles which wiped off the reproach of his death from him. These Miracles were antecedent to his interment, or concomitants of it.
Secondly, Yet though men could bestow little honour upon it, the heavens bestowed several marks of honour upon it. Adorn'd it with divers Miracles which wiped off the reproach of his dea•h from him. These Miracles were antecedent to his interment, or concomitants of it.
First, There was that extraordinary and preternatural Eclipse of the Sun. Such an Eclipse as was never seen since it first shone in heaven. The Sun fainted at the sight of such a rueful spectacle and clothed the whole heaven in black. The sight of this caused a great Philosopher, who was then far from the place where this unparalleled Tragedy was acting, to cry out upon the sight of it,1 either the God of nature now suffers, or the frame of the world is now dissolved. The same Dionysius writing to Apollophanes a Philosopher, who would not embrace the Christian Faith, thus goes about to convince him. What thinkest thou (saith he) of the Eclipse when Christ was Crucified? Were we not both of us then at Heliopolis? and standing in the same place, did we not see the Moon in a new manner following the Sun;2 and not in the time of conjunction, but from the ninth hour until the evening, by a reason unknown in nature, directly opposite to the Sun? Didst thou not then being greatly terrified say unto me, O my Dionysius, what strange commutations of the heavenly bodies are these!
First, There was that extraordinary and preternatural Eclipse of the Sun. Such an Eclipse as was never seen since it first shone in heaven. The Sun fainted at the sight of such a ruful spectacle and cloathed the whole heaven in black. The sight of this caused a great Philosopher, who was then far from the place where this unparallel'd Tragedy was acting, to cry out upon the sight of it,