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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.
Secondly, because he and no other is fit for and capable of this ⟨p. 90⟩Who but he that hath the divine and humane nature united in his single Person, can be a fit Days-man to lay his hand upon both; who but he that was God, could support under such sufferings, as were by divine Justice exacted for satisfaction? take a person of the greatest Spirit, and put him but an hour in the case Christ was in, when he sweat Blood in the Garden, or uttered that heart rending cry upon the Cross; and he had melted under it as a moth.
Secondly, because he and no other is fit for and capable of this ⟨p. 90⟩Who but he that hath the divine and humane nature united in his single Person, can be a fit Days-man to lay his hand upon both; who but he that was God, could support under such sufferings, as were by divine Justice exacted for satisfaction? take a person of the greatest Spirit, and put him but an hour in the case Christ was in, when he sweat Blood in the Garden, or utter'd that heart rending cry upon the Cross; and he had melted under it as a moth.
Thirdly, because he is alone sufficient to reconcile the world to God by his Blood, without accessions from any other. The virtue of his Blood reached back as far as Adam, and reaches forward to the end of the world: and will be as fresh, vigorous, and efficacious then, as the first moment it was shed. The Sun makes day before it actually rise,1 and continues day to us sometimes after it is set. So doth Christ, who is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever, so that he is the true and only Mediator betwixt God and Men. No other is revealed in Scripture. No other sufficient for it. No other needed beside him.
Thirdly, because he is alone sufficient to reconcile the world to God by his Blood, without accessions from any other. The vertue of his Blood reacht back as far as Adam, and reaches forward to the end of the world: and will be as fresh, vigorous, and efficatious then, as the first moment it was shed. The Sun makes day before it actually rise,