A39663:664
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 thus to make intercession, is the peculiar and incommunicable prerogative of Jesus Christ. None but he can go in his own name to God. And in that sense we are to understand that place, Ezech. 44.2, 3. Then said the Lord unto me, this gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. It is for the Prince, the Prince he shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord, &c. The great broad gate, called here the Princes gate, signifies that abundant and direct entrance that Christ had into Heaven, by his own merits and in his own name;1 this faith the Lord shall be shut, no man shall enter in by it; all other men must come thither as it were by collateral or side doors, which looked all towards the Altar, viz. by virtue of the Mediator, and through the benefit of his death imputed to them.
And thus to make intercercession, is the peculiar and incommunicable prerogative of Jesus Christ. None but he can go in his own name to God. And in that sense we are to understand that place, Ezech. 44.2, 3. Then said the Lord unto me, this gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it: because the Lord the God of Israel hath entred in by it, therefore it shall be shut. It is for the Prince, the Prince he shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord, &c. The great broad gate, called here the Princes gate, signifies that abundant and direct entrance that Christ had into Heaven, by his own merits and in his own name;1 this faith the Lord shall be shut, no man shall enter in by it; all other men must come thither as it were by collateral or side doors, which looked all towards the Altar, viz. by vertue of the Mediator, and through the benefit of his death imputed to them.
- 1See D•odati and our English Annot. in Loc.