A39663:2015
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.
Inference 1.
If Christ died to reconcile God and man. 1How horrid an evil then is sin! And how terrible was that breach made betwixt God and the creature by it, which could no other way be made up but by the death of the Son of God! I remember I have read that when a great chasm or breach was made in the earth by an earthquake, and the Oracle was consulted how it might be closed; this answer was returned, that breach can never be closed, except something of great worth be thrown into it. Such a breach was that which sin made, it could never be reconciled but by the death of Jesus Christ, the most excellent thing in all the Creation.
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Inference 2.
How sad is the state of all such as are not comprised in the Articles of peace with God! 1The impenitent unbeliever is excepted. God is not reconciled to him: and if God be his enemy, how little avails it, who is his friend. For if God be a mans enemy, he hath an Almighty enemy in him, whose very frown is destruction.