A39663:2084
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.
Secondly, As it is the meritorious cause of our Resurrection, so so it is the efficient cause of it also. For when the time shall come that the Saints shall rise out of the dust, they shall be raised by Christ as their head, in whom the effective principle of their life is. Your life is hid with Christ in God as it is, 1Col. 3.3. As when a man awakes out of sleep, the animal spirits seated in the brain, being set at liberty by the digestion of those vapours that bound them up, do play freely through every part and member of the body, so Christ the believers mystical head being quickened; the ⟨p. 551⟩spirit of life which is in him shall be diffused through all his members to quicken them also in the morning of the Resurrection. Hence the warm animating dew of Christs Resurrection is said to be to our bodies, as the dew of the morning is to the withered languishing plants which revive by it, Isa. 26.19. Thy dew is as the dew of Herbs, and then it follows, the earth shall cast forth her dead. So that by the same Faith we put Christs Resurrection into the Premises, we may put the believers Resurrection into the Conclusion. And therefore the Apostle makes them convertibles, reasoning forward from Christs to ours, and back again from ours, to his, 1 Cor. 15.12, 13. Which is also the sense of that Scripture, Rom. 8.10, 11. And if Christ be in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness, (i. e.) though you are really united to Christ by the Spirit, yet your bodies must die as well as other mens; but your souls shall be presently upon your dissolution swallowed up in life. And then it follows vers. 11. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you, (i. e.) though your bodies must die, yet they shall live again in the Resurrection; and that by virtue of the spirit of Christ which dwelleth in you; and is the bond of your mystical union with him your head. You shall not be raised as others are, by a mere word of power, but by the spirit of life dwelling in Christ your head, which is a choice prerogative indeed.