A39663:1946
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
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Corollary 3.
Hence we may be assisted in discerning the depths of Christs humiliation for us. 1And see from what, to what his love brought him. It was not enough that he who was in the form of God, became a creature; which was an infinite stoop, nay to be made a man, an inferior order of creatures. Nay to be a poor man, to spend his days in poverty and contempt. But also to be a Dead corps for our sake. O what manner of love is this!
Hence we may be assisted in discerning the depths of Christs humiliation for us. 1And see from what, to what his love brought him. It was not enough that he who was in the form of God, became a creature; which was an infinite stoop, nay to be made a man, an inferior order of creatures. Nay to be a poor man, to spend his daies in poverty and contempt. But also to be a Dead corps for our sake. O what manner of love is this!
- 1Cor. 3.
Now the deeper the humiliation of the Son of God was, the more satisfactory to us it must needs be. For as it shows us the heinousness of sin that deserves all this, so the fullness of Christs satisfaction whereby he makes up that breach. O it was a deep humiliation indeed. How unlike himself is he now become! Doth he look like the Son of God? What, the Son of God whom all the Angels adore to be shuffled by three or four persons into his Grave in an evening. To be carried from Golgotha to the Grave in this manner. And there lie as a captive to Death for a time. Never was the like change of conditions, never such an abasement heart of in the world.