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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.
HEB. VII.XXV. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost, that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, to make intercession for them.
Having dispatched the first part or Act of Christs Priesthood, consisting in his Oblation; we come to the other branch of it, consisting in his Intercession: which is nothing else but the virtual continuation of his offering once made on earth. That being medium reconciliationis, the means of reconciling;1 this, medium applicationis, the way and means of his applying to us the benefits purchased by it.
HAving dispatcht the first part or Act of Christs Priesthood, consisting in his Oblation; we come to the other branch of it, consisting in his Intercession: which is nothing else but the vertual continuation of his offering once made on earth. That being medium reconciliationis, the means of reconciling;1 this, medium applicationis, the way and means of his applying to us the benefits purchased by it.
- 1Redemptio quam operatus est, fundamentum sit intercessionis, — ac propterea redemptio•em, & intercessionem tanquan duas individuas Christi Sacrificii partes Scriptura commemorare solet. Ravenella ad verbum intercedere.
This second part or branch of his Priesthood, was Typified by the High-Priests entering with the blood of the Sacrifice, ⟨p. 153⟩