A39663:2059
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.
MATTH. XXVIII.VI. He is not here, for he is risen; as he said: come, see the place, where the Lord lay.
WE have finished the Doctrine of Christs humiliation wherein the Sun of righteousness appeared to you as a setting Sun, gone out of sight; but as the Sun when it's gone down to us, begins a new day in another part of the world, so Christ having finished his course and work in this world; rises again and that in order to the acting another glorious part of his work in the world above. In his death he was upon the matter totally Eclipsed, but in his Resurrection he begins to recover his light and glory again. God never intended that the darling of his soul, should be lost in an obscure Sepulchre. An Angel descends from heaven to roll away the stone, and with it the reproach of his death. And to be the heavenly Herald to proclaim his Resurrection to the two Mary's, whose love to Christ