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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.
First, By his wise and merciful designs and counsels for your recovery and salvation by Jesus Christ. It was he that laid the corner stone of your salvation with his own hands. The first motion sprang out of his breast. If God had not designed the Redeemer for you, the world had never seen him; he had never left that sweet bosom for you. It was the Act of the Father to give you to the Son to be Redeemed, and then to give the Son to be a Redeemer to you. Both of them stupendous and astonishing Acts of grace. And in both God acted as a most free Agent. When he gave you to Christ before the beginning of time, there was nothing out of himself that could in the least move him to it. When the Father, Son, and Spirit sate (as I may say) at the Counsel Table, contriving and laying the design for the salvation of a few out of many of Adams degenerate off-spring, there was none came before them to speak one word for thee; but such was the divine pleasure to insert thy name in that Catalogue of the saved. Oh how much owest thou to the Lord for this! And what an engagement doth it leave upon thy soul to obey, please and glorify him?
First, By his wise and merciful designs and counsels for your recovery and salvation by Jesus Christ. It was he that laid the corner stone of your salvation with his own hands. The first motion sprang out of his breast. If God had not designed the Redeemer for you, the world had never seen him; he had never left that sweet bosom for you. It was the Act of the Father to give you to the Son to be Redeemed, and then to give the Son to be a Redeemer to you. Both of them stupenduous and astonishing Acts of grace. And in both God acted as a most free Agent. When he gave you to Christ before the beginning of time, there was nothing out of himself that could in the least move him to it. When the Father, Son, and Spirit sate (as I may say) at the Counsel Table, contriving and laying the design for the salvation of a few out of many of Adams degenerate off-spring, there was none came before them to speak one word for thee; but such was the divine pleasure to insert thy name in that Catalogue of the saved. Oh how much owest thou to the Lord for this! And what an engagement doth it leave upon thy soul to obey, please and glorifie him?