A39663:1975
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.
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.
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 pretious and invaluable blood of the Testator and surety of the New Testament, is shed for four weighty Ends also.
First, 1That blood was shed and applied to deliver from danger, Exod. 12.13. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are, and when I see the blood I will pass over you. And the Plague shall not be upon you, to destroy you when I smite the Land of Egypt.
- 1Per hunc ritum implicitè profitebantur Haebraei, se liberandos ab aeterna mort•p•r Missiae sanguinem. Vatab.