A39663:2051
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.
The whole of that work was not to be finished on earth in a state of suffering and abasure, therefore the Apostle makes his Exaltation in order to the finishing of the remainder of his work, so necessary a part of his Priesthood, that without it he could not have been a Priest, Heb. 8.4. If he were on earth he should not be a Priest, (i. e.) if he should have continued always here, and had not been raised again from the dead and taken up into glory, he could not have been a complete and perfect Priest.
The whole of that work was not to be finished on earth in a state of suffering and abasure, therefore the Apostle makes his Exaltation in order to the finishing of the remainder of his work, so necessary a part of his Priesthood, that without it he could not have been a Priest, Heb. 8.4. If he were on earth he should not be a Priest, (i. e.) if he should have continued alwaies here, and had not been raised again from the dead and taken up into glory, he could not have been a compleat and perfect Priest.
For look as it was not enough for the sacrifice to be slain without, and his blood left there; but after it was shed without, it must be carried within the veil into the most holy place before the Lord, Heb. 9.7. So it was not sufficient that Christ shed his own blood on earth, except he carry it before the Lord into heaven, and there perform his intercession work for us.
For look as it was not enough for the sacrifice to be slain without, and his blood left there; but after it was shed without, it must be carried within the vail into the most holy place before the Lord, Heb. 9.7. So it was not sufficient that Christ shed his own blood on earth, except he carry it before the Lord into heaven, and there perform his intercession work for us.