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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,1 Christs Priesthood implies the necessity of his being God-man. It was necessary he should be a man in order to his ⟨p. 130⟩passion, compassion, and derivation of his righteousness, and holiness to men. Had he not been man, he had had no sacrifice to offer, no soul, or body to suffer in. The Godhead is impatible, immortal, and above all those sufferings and miseries Christ felt for us. Besides, his being man fills him with bowels of compassion, and tender sense of our miseries. This makes him a merciful, and faithful High-Priest. Heb. 4.15. And not only fits him to pity, but to sanctify us also; for he that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified, are both of one. Heb. 2.11, 14, 17. And as necessary it was our High-Priest should be God, since the value and efficacy of of his sacrifice, results from thence.
Fourthly,1 Christs Priesthood implys the necessity of his being God-man. It was necessary he should be a man in order to his ⟨p. 130⟩passion, compassion, and derivation of his righteousness, and holiness to men. Had he not been man, he had had no sacrifice to offer, no soul, or body to suffer in. The Godhead is impatible, immortal, and above all those sufferings and miseries Christ felt for us. Besides, his being man fills him with bowels of compassion, and tender sense of our miseries. This makes him a merciful, and faithful High-Priest. Heb. 4.15. And not only fits him to pity, but to sanctifie us also; for he that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified, are both of one. Heb. 2.11, 14, 17. And as necessary it was our High-Priest should be God, since the value and efficacy of of his sacrifice, results from thence.