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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.
1Great and long preparations bespeak the solemnity and greatness of the work, for which they are designed. A man that had but seen the heaps of Gold, Silver, and Brass which David amassed in his time, for the building of the Temple, might easily conclude before one Stone of it was laid, that it would be a magnificent Structure. But lo here is a design of God, as far transcending that, as the substance doth the shadow. For indeed that glorious Temple was but the Type, and Figure of Jesus Christ, Joh. 2.19.21. and a weak adumbration of that living spiritual Temple, which he was to build: cementing the lively Stones thereof together with his own blood,