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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.
Thirdly, And as it signifies honour and power, so nearness in place, as we use to say at ones elbow, and so it is applied to Christ, in Psal. 110.5. The Lord at thy right hand, shall strike through Kings in the day of his wrath; that is, the Lord who is very near thee, present with thee, he shall subdue thine enemies. This is that then we are to understand by Gods right hand. Honour, power and nearness.
Secondly, In the next place let us see what is implied in Christ sitting at Gods right hand, with his enemies for his footstool. And if we attently consider, we shall find that it implies and imports divers great and weighty things in it. As, First, It implies the Complement and Perfection of Christs work, that he came into the world about. After his work was ended, then he sat down and rested from those labours, Heb. 10.11.12. Every Priest standeth daily ministering, and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices; which can never take away sins; but this man when he had once offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God. Here he assigns a double difference betwixt Christ and the Levitical Priests; they stand, which is the posture of Servants; he sits, which is the posture of a Lord. They stand daily, because their sacrifices cannot take away sin; he did his work fully, by one offering; and after that sits, or rests for ever in Heaven.1 And this (as accurate and judicious Dr. Reynolds observes) was excellently figured to us in the Ark. which was a lively Type of Jesus Christ, and particularly in this, it had rings by which it was carried up and down, till at last it rested in Solomons Temple, with glorious and Triumphal solemnity, Psal. 132, 8, 9. 2 Chron. 5.13