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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.
Let us consider it positively, what it was, and guess by some §2particular considerations (for indeed we can but guess) […] the glory of it: as (1.) We cannot but conceive it to be a state of matchless happiness, if we consider the persons enjoying; and delighting each in other: he was with God, Joh. 1.1. God you know is the Fountain, Ocean, and Centre of all delights and joys, Psal. 16.11. in thy presence is fullness of joy. To be wrapped up in the soul; and bosom of all delights as Christ was, must needs be a state transcending apprehension: to have the Fountain of love, and delight, letting out it self so immediately and fully, and everlastingly upon this only begotten darling of his soul, so as it never did communicate it self to any; judge what a state of transcendent felicity this must be? great persons have great delights. (2.) Or if we consider the intimacy, dearness, yea oneness of those great persons one with another: the nearer the union the sweeter the communion: now Jesus Christ was not only near, and dear to God, but one with him, I and my Father are one, Joh. 10.30. one in nature, will, love, and delight; there is indeed a Moral union of souls, among men by love, but this was a natural oneness; no Child is so one with his Father, no Husband so one with the Wife of his bosom, ⟨p. 18⟩no Friend so one with his Friend, no Soul so one with its body, as Jesus Christ and his Father were one. O, what matchless delights must necessarily flow, from such a blessed Union! (3.) Consider again the purity of that delight, with which the blessed Father and Son embraced each other; the best Creature-delights one in another, are mixed, debased, and allayed: if there be something ravishing, and engaging, there is also something cloying and distasting: the purer any delight is, the more excellent.
Let us consider it positively, what it was, and guess by some §2particular considerations (for indeed we can but guess) 〈…〉 the glory of it: as (1.) We cannot but conceive it to be a state of matchless happiness, if we consider the persons enjoying; and delighting each in other: he was with God,