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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.
And to preserve a clear Method in the explication of this great truth, into which your Faith and comfort is resolved; I shall First show what was the work and office to which the Father Sealed him. Secondly, What his Sealing to this work doth imply. ⟨p. 58⟩Thirdly, How, and by what acts the Father Sealed him to it. Fourthly, Why it was necessary that he should be thus Sealed, and authorized by his Father. And then improve it, in its proper Uses.
And to preserve a clear Method in the explication of this great truth, into which your Faith and comfort is resolved; I shall First shew what was the work and office to which the Father Sealed him. Secondly, What his Sealing to this work doth imply. ⟨p. 58⟩Thirdly, How, and by what acts the Father Sealed him to it. Fourthly, Why it was necessary that he should be thus Sealed, and authorized by his Father. And then improve it, in its proper Uses.
What was that office or work to which his Father Sealed him? I answer more generally, he was Sealed to the whole work of mediation for us, thereby to recover and save all the elect, whom the Father had given him. So Joh. 17.2. It was to give Eternal Life to as many as were given him. It was to bring Jacob, again to him, Esa. 49.5. Or as the Apostle expresses it, Pet. 3.18. That he might bring us to God. More particularly in order to the sure and full effecting of this most glorious design, he was Sealed to the offices of a Prophet, Priest, and King; that so he might bring about and compass this work.
What was that office or work to which his Father Sealed him? I answer more generally, he was Sealed to the whole work of mediation for us, thereby to recover and save all the elect, whom the Father had given him. So