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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.
Corollary. 3.
Is Christ your High-Priest,1 and is his Priesthood so indispensably necessary to your salvation; then freely acknowledge your utter impotency to reconcile your selves to God, by any thing you can do, or suffer. And let Christ have the whole glory of your recovery ascribed to him. It's highly reasonable, that he that laid down the whole price, should have the whole praise. If any man think, or say, he could have made an atonement for himself; he doth therein cast no light reproach upon that profound wisdom, which laid the design of our redemption in the death of Christ. But of this I have spoken elsewhere. And therefore;
Is Christ your High-Priest,1 and is his Priestood so indispensably necessary to your salvation; then freely acknowledge your utter impotency to reconcile your selves to God, by any thing you can do, or suffer. And let Christ have the whole glory of your recovery ascribed to him. It's highly reasonable, that he that laid down the whole price, should have the whole praise. If any man think, or say, he could have made an attonement for himself; he doth therein cast no light reproach upon that profound wisdom, which laid the design of our redemption in the death of Christ. But of this I have spoken elsewhere. And therefore;
- 1Cor. 3.