A39663:1967
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.
ISAIAH LIII.II. He shall see the Travel of his Soul and be satisfied
WE are now arrived at the last particular which we designed to speak to in Christs state of humiliation namely the Designs and blessed Ends for which he was so deeply abased. It's inconsistent with the prudence of a common Agent to be at vast expenses of time, pains, and cost; and not to propound to himself a design worthy of all those expenses. And it is much less imaginable that Christ would so stupendiously abase himself, by stooping from the bosom of his Father to the state of the dead, where our last Discourse lef• him, if there had not been some excellent and glorious thing in his eye, the attainment whereof might give him a content and satisfaction equivalent to all the sorrow• and abasures he endured or it.
WE are now arrived at the last particular which we designed to speak to in Christs state of humiliation namely the Designs and blessed Ends for which he was so deeply abased. It's inconsistent with the prudence of a common Agent to be at vast expences of time, pains, and cost; and not to propound to himself a design worthy of all those expences. And it is much less imaginable that Christ would so stupendiously abase himself, by stooping from the bosom of his Father to the state of the dead, where our last Discourse lef• him, if there had not been some excellent and glorious thing in his eye, the attainment whereof might give him a content and satisfaction equival•nt to all the sorrow• and abasures he endured or it.