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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
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What an astonishing act of love was this then,1 for the Father to give, the delight, the darling of his soul, out of his very bosom, for poor sinners? all tongues must needs pause, and falter, that attempt the expression of this grace: expressions being here swallowed up. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, Joh. 3.16. here is a sic, without a sicut; so loved them, how did he love them? nay, here you must excuse the tongues of Angels; which of us would deliver a ⟨p. 20⟩Child, the Child of our delights; an only Child to death, for the greatest inheritance in the World? what tender Parent can endure a parting pull, with such a Child? when Hagar was taking her last leave (as she thought) of her Ishmael: Gen. 21.16. the text saith she went, and sate her down over against him; a good way off, for she said, let me not see the death of the Child, and she sate over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept: though she were none of the best Mothers, nor he the best of Children; yet she could not give up a Child. O, 'twas hard to part! what an out-cry did David make, even for an Absalom? wishing he dyed for him: what a hole (as I may say) hath the death of some Children made in the hearts of some Parents? which will never be closed up in this world: yet surely, never did any Child lye so close to a Parents heart, as Christ did to his Fathers; and yet he willingly parts with him, though his only one, the Son of his delights, and that to death, a cursed death, for sinners, for the worst of sinners. O miranda dei philanthropia! matchless love, a love past finding out! let all men therefore, in the business of their redemption, give equal glory to the Father with the Son,