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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.
In the words are considerable.
The Original, Spring, or Fountain of our best mercies; the love of God. The love of God is either benevolent, beneficent, or complacential; his benevolent love, is nothing else but his desire, and purpose of saving and doing us good: so his purpose of grace to Jacob, is called love: Rom. 9.13. Jacob have I loved; but this being before Jacob was, could consist in nothing else, but the gracious purpose of God towards him: his beneficent love, is his actual doing good to the persons beloved: or the bestowing the effects of his love upon us, according to that purpose. His complacential love, is nothing else but that delight and satisfaction he finds, in beholding the fruits, and workings of that grace in us; which he first intended for us, and then actually collated, or bestowed on us. This love of benevolence is that which I have opened to you under the former head, Gods compact with Christ about us, or his design to save us, on the Articles and terms therein specified.
The Original, Spring, or Fountain of our best mercies; the love of God. The love of God is either benevolent, beneficient, or complacential; his benevolent love, is nothing else but his desire, and purpose of saving and doing us good: so his purpose of grace to Iacob, is called love: Rom. 9.13. Iacob have I loved; but this being before Iacob was, could consist in nothing else, but the gracious purpose of God towards him: his beneficent love, is his actual doing good to the persons beloved: or the bestowing the effects of his love upon us, according to that purpose. His complacential love, is nothing else but that delight and satisfaction he finds, in beholding the fruits, and workings of that grace in us; which he first intended for us, and then actually collated, or bestowed on us. This love of benevolence is that which I have opened to you under the former head, Gods compact with Christ about us, or his design to save us, on the Articles and terms therein specified.