A39663:496
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.
In this point there are two things doctrinally to be discussed, and opened, viz. What Christs being a Prophet to the Church implies. And how he executes, and discharges this his Office.
First, What is implied in Christs being a Prophet to the Church. And it necessarily imports these three things.
First, What is implyed in Christs being a Prophet to the Church. And it necessarily imports these three things.
1First, The natural ignorance and blindness of men, in the things of God. This shows us that vain man is born as the wild Asses Colt.— The world is involved in darkness. The people sit as in the Region and shadow of Death, till Christ arise upon their Souls, Matth. 4.15, 16, 17. 'Tis true, in the state of innocence, man had a clear apprehension of the will of God without a Mediator; but now that light is quenched in the corruption of nature, and the natural man receiveth not the things of God, 1 Cor. 2.14. These things of God, are not only contrary to corrupt carnal reason, but they are also above right reason. Grace indeed useth nature, but nature can do nothing without grace. The mind of a natural man hath not only a native blindness, by reason whereof it cannot discern the things of the Spirit, but also a natural enmity, Rom. 8.7. And hates the light,