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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.
And yet, I dare not affirm as some do, that by reason of the infinite preciousness of Christs blood; one drop thereof had been sufficient to have redeemed the whole world:1 for if one drop had been enough, why was all the rest, even to the last drop shed? Was God cruel, to exact more from him than was needful and sufficient? Besides we must remember, that the passions of Christ which were inflicted on him as the curse of the Law; these only are the passions which are sufficient for our redemption from the curse of the Law; now, it was not a drop of blood, but death which was contained in the curse. This therefore was necessary to be inflicted. But surely as none but God can estimate the weight and evil of sin, so none but he can comprehend the worth and preciousness of the blood of Christ, shed to expiate it. And being so infinitely precious a thing which was offered up to God, it must,
And yet, I dare not affirm as some do, that by reason of the infinite pretiousness of Christs blood; one drop thereof had been sufficient to have redeemed the whole world:1 for if one drop had been enough, why was all the rest, even to the last drop shed? Was God cruel, to exact more from him than was needful and sufficient? Besides we must remember, that the passions of Christ which were inflicted on him as the curse of the Law; these only are the passions which are sufficient for our redemption from the curse of the Law; now, it was not a drop of blood, but death which was contained in the curse. This therefore was necessary to be inflicted. But surely as none but God can estimate the weight and evil of sin, so none but he can comprehend the worth and pretiousness of the blood of Christ, shed to expiate it. And being so infinitely pretious a thing which was offered up to God, it must,
- 1Id •olù• rationem poenae babere potest, quod infligitur à judice legi convenienter▪ Non convenit aut•m legi quae mortem denunciat, •t ob ejus violationem id infligatr tantum ex quo guttula sanguins manet. Joh. Camero. p. 364.