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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.
Fourthly, The Father promiseth to accept him in his work, though millions should eternally perish. Isai. 49.4. Surely (saith he) my work is with the Lord. And (verse 5.) I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord. His faith had therein respect to this compact and promise, accordingly the Father manifests the satisfaction he had in him, and in his work; even while he was about it on earth; when there came such a voice from the excellent glory saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
Fifthly, He engaged to reward him highly for his work, by exalting him to singular and supereminent glory and honour; when he should have dispatched and finished it. So you read, Psal. 2.7. I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. It's spoken of the day of his resurrection, when he had just finished his suffering. And so the Apostle expounds and applies it, Acts 13.32, 33. For then did the Lord wipe away the reproach of his Cross, and invested him with such glory that he looked like himself again. As if the Father had said, now thou hast again recovered thy glory, and this day is to thee as a new birth-day.
These are the encouragements and rewards proposed and promised to him, by the Father. This was the joy set before him, (as the Apostle phraseth it) in Heb. 12.2. which made him so patiently to endure the Cross and despise the Shame.