A39663:676
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.
Here you must remember that the Father is under a covenant-tie, and bond to do what he asks; for Christ having fully performed the work on his part▪ the mercies he intercedes for are as due, as the hire of the labourer is, when the work is faithfully done. And as the matter is just, so the manner of his intercession is urgent, and continual. How importunate a suitor he is, may be easily gathered from that specimen or handsel given of it in Joh. 17. and for the constancy of it, my text tells us, he ever lives to make Intercession. 'Tis his great business in Heaven, and he follows it close. And to close all,
Here you must remember that the Father is under a covenant-tye, and bond to do what he asks; for Christ having fully performed the work on his part▪ the mercies he intercedes for are as due, as the hire of the labourer is, when the work is faithfully done. And as the matter is just, so the manner of his intercession is urgent, and continual. How importunate a suiter he is, may be easily gathered from that specimen or handsel given of it in Ioh. 17. and for the constancy of it, my text tells us, he ever lives to make Intercession. 'Tis his great business in Heaven, and he follows it close. And to close all,
Fourthly, Consider who they are for whom he makes Intercession. The friends of God. The children of God. Those that the Father himself loves, and his heart is propense, and ready enough to grant the best and greatest of mercies to; which is the meaning of Joh. 16.26, 27. the Father himself loveth you. And it must needs be so, for the first corner stone of all these mercies was laid by the Father himself in his most free election: He also delivered his Son for us, and how shall he not with him, freely give us all things?