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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.
The love of beneficence, is that which this Scripture speaks off, out of this fountain Christ flowed to us, and both run into that of complacency; for therefore he both purposed, and actually bestowed Christ on us, that he might everlastingly delight in beholding the glory and praise of all this, reflected on himself by his redeemed ones. This then is the fountain of our mercies.
The mercy flowing out of this fountain, and that is Christ: the mercy as he is Emphatically called,1 Luk. 1.72. the marrow, kernel, and substance of all other mercies. He gave his only begotten Son: this was the birth of that love, the like whereunto it never brought forth before, therefore it's expressed with a double emphasis in the Text, the one is that particle [Greek or Hebrew] so; he so loved the world: here is a sic without a sicut: how did he love it? why he so loved it; but how much, the tongues of Angels cannot declare. And moreover, to increase and aggravate the mercy, he is styled his only begotten Son; to have given a Son, had been wonderful; but to give an only begotten Son, that's love unexpressible, unintelligible.
The mercy flowing out of this fountain, and that is Christ: the mercy as he is Emphatically called,1 Luk. 1.72. the marrow, kernel, and substance of all other mercies. He gave his only begotten Son: this was the birth of that love, the like whereunto it never brought forth before, therefore it's exprest with a double emphasis in the Text, the one is that particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 so; he so loved the world: here is a sic without a sicut: how did he love it? why he so loved it; but how much, the tongues of Angels cannot declare. And moreover, to encrease and aggravate the mercy, he is stiled his only begotten Son; to have given a Son, had been wonderful; but to give an only begotten Son, that's love unexpressible, unintelligible.