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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.
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.
These are the incouragements 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.
And in like manner, Jesus Christ restipulates, and gives his engagement to the Father; that upon these terms he is content to be made flesh; to devest (as it were) himself of his glory; to come under the obedience and malediction of the Law; and not to refuse any, the hardest sufferings it should ⟨p. 31⟩please his Father to inflict on him. So much is carried in Isaiah. 50.5, 6, 7. The Lord hath opened mine ear, and I was not Rebellious; neither turned away back; I gave my back to the Smiters, and my cheeks to them that pulled off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting: for the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded; I have set my face as a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. When he saith I was not Rebellio•s, 1he meaneth I was most heartily willing and content to accept the terms; for there is a Meiosis in the words, and much more is intended than expressed. And the sense of this place is well delivered to us in other terms,