Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
John Flavel, The Fountain of Life, Works 1:84-85
Lastly, How wonderful a comfort is it, that he who dwells in our flesh is God? "What joy may not a poor believer make out of this? What comfort one made out of it, I will give you in his own words, "I see it a work of God," (saith he) that experiences are "all lost, when summons of improbation, to prove our charters of Christ to be counterfeit, are raised against poor souls in their heavy trials. But let me be a sinner, and worse than the chief of sinners, yea, a guilty devil, I am sure my well-beloved is God, and my Christ is God. And when I say my Christ is God, I have said all things. I can say no more. I would I could build as much on this, My Christ is God, as it would bear: I might lay all the world upon it."
God and man in one person! Oh! thrice happy conjunction! As man, he is full of experimental sense of our infirmities, wants, and burdens; and, as God, he can support and supply them all. The aspect of faith upon this wonderful Person, how relieving, how reviving, how abundantly satisfying is it? God will never divorce the believing soul, and its comfort, after he hath married our nature to his own Son, by the hypostatical, and our persons also, by the blessed mystical union."
Lastly, How wonderful a comfort is it, that he who dwells in our flesh is God? "What joy may not a poor believer make out of this? What comfort one made out of it, I will give you in his own words, "I see it a work of God," (saith he) that experiences are "all lost, when summons of improbation, to prove our charters of Christ to be counterfeit, are raised against poor souls in their heavy trials. But let me be a sinner, and worse than the chief of sinners, yea, a guilty devil, I am sure my well-beloved is God, and my Christ is God. And when I say my Christ is God, I have said all things. I can say no more. I would I could build as much on this, My Christ is God, as it would bear: I might lay all the world upon it."
God and man in one person! Oh! thrice happy conjunction! As man, he is full of experimental sense of our infirmities, wants, and burdens; and, as God, he can support and supply them all. The aspect of faith upon this wonderful Person, how relieving, how reviving, how abundantly satisfying is it? God will never divorce the believing soul, and its comfort, after he hath married our nature to his own Son, by the hypostatical, and our persons also, by the blessed mystical union."
