A39663:750
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.
We will here first see what Christ paid. Secondly, what he purchased. Thirdly, for whom.
First, What Christ paid. Our Divines comprise the virtue §1and fruits of the Priesthood of Christ in these two things,1 viz. solutio debiti, & acquisitio haereditatis, payment, and purchase: answerably the obedience of Christ hath a double relation, ratio legalis justiciae, the relation of a legal righteousness; an adequate and exactly proportionated price. And it hath also in it ratio super legalis meriti, the relation of a merit over and beyond the Law.
First, What Christ paid. Our Divines comprize the vertue §1and fruits of the Priesthood of Christ in these two things,1 viz. solutio debiti, & acquisitio haereditatis, payment, and purchase: answerably the obedience of Christ hath a double relation, ratio legalis justiciae, the relation of a legal righteousness; an adequate and exactly proportionated price. And it hath also in it ratio super legalis meriti, the relation of a merit over and beyond the Law.
- 1Parker de descensu, lib. 3. p. 97. Dr. Reynolds in Psalm 110. Carero. 363, &c.
To object (as some do) the satisfaction of Christ was more than sufficient,