A39663:956
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 Fatherly care,1 and tender love of our Lord Jesus Christ, was eminently discovered in that pleading prayer, he poured out for his people, at his parting with them.
DOCT. That the Fatherly care,1 and tender love of our Lord Iesus Christ, was eminently discovered in that pleading prayer, he poured out for his people, at his parting with them.
- 1Doct.
It pertained to the Priest, and Father of the family to bless the rest, especially when they were to be separated from them by death. This was a rite in Israel. When good Jacob was grown old, and the time was come that he should be gathered to his Fathers, then he blessed Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh, saying, God before whom my Fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil bless the Lads, Gen. 48.15, 16. this was ⟨p. 253⟩*a prophetical and patriarchical blessing. Not that Jacob could bless as God blesses; he could speak the words of blessing, but he knew the effect, the real blessing it self, depended upon God. And though he blessed authoritatively, yet not potestatively, (i. e.) he could as the mouth of God pronounce blessings, but could not confer them. Thus he blessed his Children, as his Father Isaac has also blessed him before he died, Gen. 28.3. and all these blessings were delivered prayerwise.