The Fountain of Life Opened

First, Freely, by his own voluntary interposition and susception of the mediatorial office, moved thereunto by his own bowels of compassion; which yearned over his Elect in their misery. The Saints were once a lost generation, tha• had sold themselves, and their inheritance also;¹ and had not wherewithal to Redeem either: but they had a near kinsman (even their elder Brother by the Mothers side) to whom the right of Redemption did belong; who being a mighty man of wealth▪ the heir of all things, undertook to be their Goel; and out of his own proper substance to Redeem both them and their inheritance. Them to be his own inheritance, Eph. 1.10. And heaven to be theirs 1 Pet. 1.4. All this he did most freely, when none mad• supplication to him. No sighing of the prisoners came before him. He designed it for us before we had a being. And when the purposes of his grace were come to their parturient fullness, then did he freely lay out the infinite treasures of his blood to purchase our deliverance from wrath.

First, Freely, by his own voluntary interposition and susception of the mediatorial office, moved thereunto by his own bowels of compaossion; which yearned over his Elect in their misery. The Saints were once a lost generation, tha• had sold themselves, and their inheritance also;¹ and had not wherewithall to Redeem either: but they had a near kinsman (even their elder Brother by the Mothers side) to whom the right of Redemption did belong; who being a mighty man of wealth▪ the heir of all things, undertook to be their Goell; and out of his own proper substance to Redeem both them and their inheritance. Them to be his own inheritance, Eph. 1.10. And heaven to be theirs