A39663:328
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.
Secondly, Another fruit of this Hypostatical union is the singular advancement of the humane nature in Christ far beyond and above what it is capable of in any other person, it being hereby replenished and filled with an unparalleled measure of Divine graces and excellencies,1 in which respect he is said to be anointed above or before his fellows, Psal. 45.8. And so becomes the object of adoration, and Divine worship, Acts 7.59. This the Socinians oppugn with this Argument. He that is worshipped with a Divine worship as he is mediator, is not so worshipped as God: but Christ is worshipped as mediator. But we say that to be worshipped as mediator, and as God; are not opposite, but the one is necessarily included in the other; and therein is farther included the ratio formalis sub quâ, of that Divine religious worship.
Secondly, Another fruit of this Hypostatical union is the singular advancement of the humane nature in Christ far beyond and above what it is capable of in any other person, it being hereby replenished and fill'd with an unparelell'd measure of Divine graces and excellencies,1 in which respect he is said to be annointed above or before his fellows, Psal. 45.8. And so becomes the object of adoration, and Divine worship, Acts 7.59. This the Socinians oppugn with this Argument. He that is worshiped with a Divine worship as he is mediator, is not so worshiped as God: but Christ is worshiped as mediator. But we say that to be worshiped as mediator, and as God; are not opposite, but the one is necessarily included in the other; and therein is farther included the ratio formalis sub quâ, of that Divine religious worship.
- 1Natura humana ita assumpta, supra creaturan vi•iversam assumptionis hujus virtute; mirum in modum est Exaltata,