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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.
Fifthly, The union of the two natures in Christ, is an inseparable Union. So that from the first moment thereof, there never was; nor to Eternity shall be, any Separation of them.
Fifthly, The union of the two natures in Christ, is an inseparable Vnion. So that from the first moment thereof, there never was; nor to Eternity shall be, any Separation of them.
If you ask how the union remained betwixt them,1 when Christs humane Soul and Body were separated from each other upon the Cross? Is not death the dissolution of union, betwixt Soul and Body?
- 1Doubt.
1True, The natural union betwixt his Soul and Body was dissolved by death for a time, but this Hypostatical union remained even then as entire and firm as ever.2 For though his Soul and Body were divided from each other; yet neither of them from the Divine Nature. Divines assist our conception of this mystery by an apt illustration. A man that holds in his hand a Sword sheathed, when he pleaseth, draws forth the Sword; but still holds that in one hand, and the sheath in the other, and then sheaths it again, still holding it in his hand; so when Christ dyed his Soul and Body retained their union with the Divine Nature, though not (during that space) one with another.