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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.
Fourthly, His sanctifying himself implies his pure and perfect holiness. That he had no Spot or blemish in him. Those beasts that prefigured him, were to be without blemish. And none else were consecrated to that Service. So, and more than so it behoved Christ to be, Heb. 7.26. Such an High-Priest became us as is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from Sinners. And what it became him to be, he was. Therefore in allusion to the Lambs offered under the Law, the Apostle calls him, a Lamb without blemish, or Spot, 1 Pet. 1.19. Every other man hath a double Spot upon him, the heart Spot, and the life Spot. The Spot of original, and the Spots of actual Sins. But Christ was without either. He had not the Spot of original Sin, for he was not by man. He came in a peculiar way into the world, and so escaped that. Not yet of actual sins, for as his nature, so his life was Spotless, and pure, Isa. 53.9. He did no iniquity. And though he was tempted to sin, externally, yet he was never defiled in heart, or practice. He came as near it as he could come for our sakes, yet still without sin, Heb. 4 15. If he sanctify himself for a Sacrifice, he must be such as the Law required, pure, and spotless.
Fourthly, His sanctifying himself implys his pure and perfect holyness. That he had no Spot or blemish in him. Those beasts that prefigured him, were to be without blemish. And none else were consecrated to that Service. So, and more than so it behoved Christ to be, Heb. 7.26. Such an High-Priest became us as is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from Sinners. And what it became him to be, he was. Therefore in allusion to the Lambs offered under the Law, the Apostle calls him, a Lamb without blemish, or Spot, 1 Pet. 1.19. Every other man hath a double Spot upon him, the heart Spot, and the life Spot. The Spot of original, and the Spots of actual Sins. But Christ was without either. He had not the Spot of original Sin, for he was not by man. He came in a peculiar way into the world, and so escaped that. Not yet of actual sins, for as his nature, so his life was Spotless, and pure,