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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.
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Adore the love of the Father, and Son; 1who bid so high for your Souls: and at this rate were contented you should be recovered.
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First, The love of the Father is herein admirably conspicuous; §1who so vehemently willed our salvation, that he is content to degrade the darling of his Soul: to so vile and contemptible a state, which was upon the matter an undoing to him, in point of reputation: as the Apostle intimates, Phil. 2.7. If two persons be at variance, and the superior, who also is the wronged person, begin to stoop first, and say, you have deeply wronged me, yea, your blood is not able to repair the wrongs you have done me: however such is my love to you, and willingness to be at peace with you; that I will part with what is most dear to me in all the world, for peace sake, yea, though I stoop below my self, and seem as it were to forget my own relation and endearments to my own Son, I will not suffer such a breach betwixt me, and you, Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.
First, The love of the Father is herein admirably conspicuous; §1