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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.
Now to open this great point we will here consider, (1.) The persons transacting one with another. (2.) The business transacted. (3.) The quality and manner of the transaction, which is federal. (4.) The articles to which they agree. (5.) How each person performs his engagement to the other. And lastly, the antiquity or eternity of this Covenant transaction.
Now to open this great point we will here consider, (1.) The persons transacting one with another. (2.) The business transacted. (3.) The quality and manner of the transaction, which is foederal. (4.) The articles to which they agree. (5.) How each person performs his engagement to the other. And lastly, the antiquity or eternity of this Covenant transaction.
First, The persons transacting and dealing with each §(1.)other in this Covenant; and indeed they are great person•. God the Father, and God the Son: the former as a Creditor, the latter as a surety: the Father stands upon satisfaction, the Son engages to give it: if it be demanded why the Father and the Spirit might not as well have treated about our redemption as the Father and Son?1 It is answered Christ is the natural Son of God, and therefore fittest to make us the adopted Sons of God. Christ also is the middle person in the Trinity, and therefore fittest to be the Mediator or middle person betwixt us and God: the Spirit hath another office assigned him, even to apply as Christ's Vicegerent, the redemption designed by the Father, and purchased by the Son for us.
- 1Vide Roberts medulla •ib. p. 1577. et. lyf. Test. p. 83, 84.