The Fountain of Life Opened

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, 1 Pet. 2.5, 6. that the great God might dwell and walk in it, 2 Cor. 6.16. the preparations for that Temple were but of few years, but the consultations and preparations for this, were from Eternity, Prov. 8.31. and as there were preparations for this ⟨p. 83⟩work, (which Christ dispatched in a few years) before the world began; so it will be matter of eternal admiration and praise, when this world shall be dissolved. What this astonishing glorious work is, this Text will inform you, as to the general nature of it. It is the work of mediation betwixt God, and Man; managed by the sole hand of the man Christ Jesus.

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, Ioh. 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,