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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, How Christ Reconciles God and men by his death. And it must needs be by the satisfaction his Death made to the Justice of God for our sins. And so, reparation being made, the enmity ceases. Hence it's said, Isa. 53.5. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes are we healed. That is (as our English Annotators well sense it) He was chastised to procure our peace by removal of our sins that set God and us asunder, the guilt thereof being discharged with the price of his blood.
First, How Christ Reconciles God and men by his death. And it must needs be by the satisfaction his Death made to the Justice of God for our sins. And so, reparation being made, the enmity ceases. Hence it's said, Isa. 53.5. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes are we healed. That is (as our English Annotators well sense it) He was chastized to procure our peace by removal of our sins that set God and us assunder, the guilt thereof being discharged with the price of his blood.
Now this Reconciliation is made and continued betwixt God and us three ways, namely, by the oblation of Christ which was the price that procured it, and so we were virtually or meritoriously reconciled. By the application of Christ and his benefits to us through faith, and so we are actually reconciled. And by the virtual continuation of the sacrifice of Christ in heaven, by his potent and eternal intercession, and so our state of reconciliation is confirmed, and all future breaches prevented. But all depends as you see, upon the death of Christ. For had not Christ died, his death could never be applied to us, nor pleaded in heaven for us. How the death of Christ meritoriously procures our reconciliation is evident from that forecited Scripture, Rom. 5.10. When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, (i. e.) Christs death did meritoriously or virtually reconcile us to God, who as to our state were enemies, long after that reconciliation was made. That the application of Christ to us by faith, makes that virtual reconciliation to become actual is plain enough from