A39663:883
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.
DOCT. That the state of Christ,1 from his Conception, to his Resurrection; was a state of deep abasement, and humiliation.
- 1Doct.
We are now entering upon Christs humbled state, which I shall cast under three general heads: viz. his Humiliation in his incarnation, in his life, and in his death. My present work is to open Christs Humiliation in his incarnation:1 imported in these words, he was found in fashion as a man. By which you are not to conceive that he only assumed a body, as an assisting form to appear transiently to us in it, and so lay it down again. It is not such an apparition of Christ in the shape of a man, that is ⟨p. 225⟩here intended: but his true and real assumption of our nature, which was a special part of his Humiliation: as will appear by the following particulars.
We are now entring upon Christs humbled state, which I shall cast under three general heads: viz. his Humiliation in his incarnation, in his life, and in his death. My present work is to open Christs Humiliation in his incarnation:1 imported in these words, he was found in fashion as a man. By which you are not to conceive that he only assumed a body, as an assisting form to appear transiently to us in it, and so lay it down again. It is not such an apparition of Christ in the shape of a man, that is ⟨p. 225⟩here intended: but his true and real assumption of our nature, which was a special part of his Humiliation: as will appear by the following particulars.