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 6.
Was the sword drawn against the Shepherd,* 1.1 and he left alone to receive the mortal strokes of it; How should all adore both the Iustice, and Mercy of God; so illustriously displayed herein! Here is the Triumph of Divine justice, and the highest Triumph that ever it had, to single forth the chief Shepherd; the man that is Gods fellow; and sheath its sword in his breast for satisfaction. No wonder it's drawn and brandished with such a Triumph, awake rejoycingly, O sword, against my Shepherd, &c. for in this blood shed by it, it hath more glory than if the blood of all the men and women in the world had been shed.
And no less is the mercy and goodness of God herein signalized, in giving the sword a commission against the man his fellow, ra∣ther than against us. Why had he not rather said, Awake, O
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sword, against the men that are my enemies; shed the blood of them that have sinned against me, than smite the Shepherd, and only scatter the sheep. Blessed be God the dreadful sword was not drawn and brandished against our souls; that God did not set it to our breasts; that he had not made it fat with our flesh, and bathed it in our blood: that his fellow was smitten that his ene∣mies might be spared. O what manner of love was this! Blessed be God therefore for Jesus Christ, who received the fatal stroke himself; and hath now so sheathed that sword in its scabbard, that it shall never be drawn any more against any that believe in him.