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 ...
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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 ...
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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.
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London :: Printed for Rob. White, for Francis Tyton ...,
1673.
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Jesus Christ -- Ethics.
Presbyterian Church -- Sermons.
Sermons, English -- 17th century.
Immortality.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39663.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Inference 1.
Hence we gather the fulness and compleatness of Christs satis∣faction,* 1.1as the sweet first fruits of incarnation. Did man offend and violate the Law of God? Behold God himself is become a man to repair that breach, and satisfie for the wrong done. The highest honour that ever the law of God received, was to have such a person as the man Christ Jesus is, to stand before its Bar, and make reparation to it. This is more than if it had poured out all our blood, and built up its honour upon the ruines of the whole creation.
It is not so much to see all the Stars in Heaven overcast, as to see one Sun eclipsed. The greater Christ was, the greater was
his humiliation; and the greater his humiliation was, the more full and compleat was his satisfaction; and the more compleatness there is in Christs satisfaction, the more perfect and steady is the Believers consolation. If he had not stoopt so low, our joy and comfort could not be exalted so high. The depth of the foundation, is the strength of the superstructure.