A39663:231
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.
The business transacted betwixt them, And that was the §(2.)redemption and recovery of all Gods elect:1 our eternal happiness lay now before them, our dearest and everlasting concerns were now in their hands: the elect (though not yet ⟨p. 28⟩in being,) are here considered as existent, yea and as fallen, miserable, forlorn creatures: how these may again be restored to happiness (salvâ justitia dei) without prejudice to the honour, justice, and truth of God, this, this, is the business that lay before them.
- 1Causa externae satisfactionis à patre decretae, & à filio susceptae, est miseria nostra, id est peccata & quidem aeternam panam promerentiae, & exigentia, in quam miseratio dei ferebatur, & ob quam poenas omnes nobis debitas subiit filius dei, ut per cum pristinae faelicitati restituerentur. Synop. pu••or Theol. p. 350.
For the manner or quality of the transaction, it was federal, or of the nature of a Covenant: it was by mutual engagements and stipulations, each person undertaking to perform his part in order to our recovery.
For the manner or quality of the transaction, it was foederal, or of the nature of a Covenant: it was by mutual engagements and stipulations, each person undertaking to perform his part in order to our recovery.