A39663:2221
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.
Fourthly, It will be a Judgement full of convictive clearness. All things will be so sifted to the bran (as we say) that the Sentence of Christ both on Saints and sinners shall be applauded. Righteous art thou O Lord because thou hast Judged thus. His Judgements will be as the light that goeth forth. So that those poor sinners whom he will condemn, shall be first [Greek or Hebrew] self condemned. Their own consciences shall be forced to confess, that there is not one drop of injustice in all that Sea of wrath, into which they are to be cast.
Fourthly, It will be a Judgement full of convictive clearness. All things will be so sifted to the bran (as we say) that the Sentence of Christ both on Saints and sinners shall be applauded. Righteous art thou O Lord because thou hast Iudged thus. His Judgements will be as the light that goeth forth. So that those poor sinners whom he will condemn, shall be first 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 self condemned. Their own consciences shall be forced to confess, that there is not one drop of injustice in all that Sea of wrath, into which they are to be cast.
Fifthly, And lastly, It will be a supreme and final Judgement, from which lies no Appeal. For it is the Sentence of the Highest, and only Lord. For as the ultimate resolution of Faith is into the Word, and truth of God;1 so the ultimate resolution of Justice is into the Judgement of God. This Judgement is supreme and imperial. For Christ is the only potentate, 1 Tim. 6.5. And therefore the Sentence once past, its execution is infallible. And so you find it in that judicial process, Matth. 25. ult. Just after the Sentence is pronounced by Christ, it is immediately added, those shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into Life Eternal. This is the Judgement of the great day.