A39663:1972
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.
DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Jesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,1 shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.
DOCT. That all the blessed designs and ends for which the Lord Iesus Christ humbled himself to the death of the Cross,1 shall certainly be attained, to his full content and satisfaction.
- 1Doct.
My present business is not to prove that Christ shall certainly obtain what he died for, nor to open the great satisfaction and pleasure which will rise to him out of those issues of his death; but to point at the principal ends of his death, making some brief improvements, as we pass along.
First, Then let us enquire into the designs and ends of Christs ⟨p. 523⟩humiliation, at least, the main and principal ones: and we shall find that as the sprinkling of the Typical blood in the Old Testament, was done for four weighty Ends or Uses; answerably the precious and invaluable blood of the Testator and surety of the New Testament, is shed for four weighty Ends also.