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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
Sermon 19 › DOCT. That the state of Christ from his Conception, to his Resurrec… › Inference 1.
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Inference 1.
From the first degree of Christs Humiliation in submitting to be circumcised,1 and thereby obliging himself to fulfil the whole Law; it follows That Justice it self may set both hand and seal, to the acquittances and discharges of Believers. Christ hereby obliged himself to be the Laws pay-master, to pay it its utmost demand. To bear that yoke of obedience that never any before him could bear. And as his circumcision obliged him to keep the whole Law; so he was most precise, and punctual in the observation of it.2 So exact, that the sharp eye of divine justice cannot espy the least flaw in it: But acknowledges full payment, and stands ready to sign the Believer a full acquittance. Rom. 3.25. That God may be just, and the Justifier of him that believes in Jesus. Had not Christ been thus obliged, we had never been discharged. Had not his obedience been an entire, complete and perfect thing; our justification could not have been so. He that hath a precious treasure, will be loth to adventure in a leaky vessel: woe to the holiest man on earth, if the safety of his precious soul, were to be adventured in the bottom of the best duty that ever he performed. But Christs obedience and righteousness is ti•e and sound. A bottom that we may safely adventure all in.
From the first degree of Christs Humiliation in submitting to be circumcised,1 and thereby obliging himself to fulfil the whole Law; it follows That Iustice it self may set both hand and seal, to the acquittances and discharges of Believers. Christ hereby obliged himself to be the Laws pay-master, to pay it its utmost demand. To bear that yoak of obedience that never any before him could bear. And as his circumcision obliged him to keep the whole Law; so he was most precise, and punctual in the observation of it.