| › Introduction - The Fountain of Life Opened Up:
or,
A Display of Christ in His
Essential and Mediatorial Glory.
Containing forty-two sermons on various texts ...read |
| › To the Reader - To the Christian Readers,
Especially those in the Town and Corporation of Dartmouth, and Parts adjacent, who have either befriended, or attended thes ...read |
| › Sermon 1 - Opens the Excellency of the Subject - 1 COR. 2: 2. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
The former verse contains an apology for the p ...read |
| › Sermon 2 - Sets Forth Christ - Sets forth Christ in his essential en primeval Glory.
Proverbs 8:30
Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] deli ...read |
| › Sermon 3 - Opens the Covenant of Redemption - Opens the Covenant of Redemption betwixt the Father and the Redeemer.
Isa.53:12.
Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he s ...read |
| › Sermon 4 - Opens the Admirable Love of God -
Opens the admirable love of God in giving his own Son for us.
John 3:16.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that wh ...read |
| › Sermon 5 - Of Christ's wonderful Person - John 1: 14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, &c.
You have heard the covenant of redemption opened. The work therein propounded by t ...read |
| › Sermon 6 - Authority of Christ - Of the Authority by which Christ, as Mediator, acted.
John 6: 27
For him hath God the Father sealed.
You have heard Christ's compact, or agreem ...read |
| › Sermon 7 - Consecration of the Mediator - Of the Solemn Consecration of the Mediator.
John 17: 19.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself.
Jesus Christ being fitted with a body, and auth ...read |
| › Sermon 8 - Of the Nature of Christ's Mediation - 1 Tim. 2: 5.
And one Mediator betwixt God and Man, the man Christ Jesus.
Great and long preparations bespeak the solemnity and greatness of the wo ...read |
| › Sermon 9 - First Branch of Christ's Prophetical Office - The first Branch of Christ's Prophetical Office, consisting in the Revelation of the Will of God.
Acts 3: 22.
A prophet shall the Lord your God r ...read |
| › Sermon 10 - Second Branch of Christ's Prophetical Office - The second Branch of Christ's Prophetical Office, consisting in the Illumination of the Understanding.
Luke 24: 45.
Then opened he their understa ...read |
| › Sermon 11 - The Priesthood of Christ - Heb. 9: 23.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves ...read |
| › Sermon 12 - Our High-Priest's Oblation - Of the Excellency of our High-Priest's Oblation, being the first Act or Part of His Priestly Office.
Heb.10:14
For by one offering he hath perfec ...read |
| › Sermon 13 - The Intercession of Christ - Of the Intercession of Christ our High-priest, being the second Act or Part of his Priestly Office.
Heb. 7: 25.
Wherefore he is able also to save ...read |
| › Sermon 14 - The Satisfaction of Christ - A Vindication of the Satisfaction of Christ, as the first Effect or Fruit of his Priesthood.
Gal. 3: 13.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of ...read |
| › Sermon 15 - The Bblessed Inheritance Purchased - Of the blessed Inheritance purchased by the Oblation of Christ, being the second Effect or Fruit of his Priesthood.
Gal. 4: 4, 5.
But when the fu ...read |
| › Sermon 16 - The Kingly Office of Christ Spiritually - Of the Kingly Office of Christ, as it is executed spiritually upon the Souls of the Redeemed.
2 Cor. 10: 5.
Casting down imaginations, and every ...read |
| › Sermon 17 - The Kingly Office of Christ Providentially - Of the Kingly Office of Christ, as it is providentially executed in the World, for the Redeemed.
Eph. 1: 22.
And has put all things under his fee ...read |
| › Sermon 18 - The Necessity of Christ's Humiliation - Of the Necessity of Christ's Humiliation, in order to the Execution of all these his blessed Offices for us; and particularly of his Humiliation by I ...read |
| › Sermon 19 - Of Christ's Humiliation in his Life - Phil. 2: 8.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself; and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.
This scripture has ...read |
| › Sermon 20 - Of Christ's Humiliation unto Death - Of Christ's Humiliation unto Death, in his first preparative Act for it.
John 17: 11.
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the wor ...read |
| › Sermon 21 - Second Preparative Act of Christ - The second preparative Act of Christ for his own Death.
1 Corinthians xi. 23-25
The Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bre ...read |
| › Sermon 22 - Third Preparative Act of Christ - The third preparative Act of Christ for his own Death.
Luke 22:41-44
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and p ...read |
| › Sermon 23 - First Preparation for Christ's Death - The first Preparation for Christ's Death, on his Enemies Part, by the treason at Judas.
Matth. 26:47,48,49.
And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, on ...read |
| › Sermon 24 - Further Preparatives for Christ's Death - The second and third Preparatives for the Death of Christ, by his illegal Trial and Condemnation.
Luke 23:23,24
And they were instant with loud v ...read |
| › Sermon 25 - Christ's Memorable Address - Christ's memorable Address to the Daughters of Jerusalem, in his Way to the Place of his Execution.
Luke 23:27,28,&c.
And there followed him a gr ...read |
| › Sermon 26 - Nature and Quality of Christ's Death - Of the Nature and Quality of Christ's Death.
Acts 2:23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, a ...read |
| › Sermon 27 - The Signal Providence - Of the signal Providence, which directed and ordered the Title affixed to the cross of Christ.
Luke 23:38
And a superscription also was written o ...read |
| › Sermon 28 - Christ's Death in Solitariness - Of the manner of Christ's Death, in respect to the Solitariness thereof.
Zechariah 13:7
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man ...read |
| › Sermon 29 - Christ's Death in Patience - Of the manner of Christ's Death, in respect of the Patience thereof.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mo ...read |
| › Sermon 30 - The First of Christ's Last Words - Of the Instructiveness of the Death of Christ, in his seven last Words; the first of which is here illustrated.
Luke 23:34
Then said Jesus, Fathe ...read |
| › Sermon 31 - The Second of Christ's Last Words - The second excellent Word of Christ upon the Cross, illustrated.
John 19:27
Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother!
We now pass to th ...read |
| › Sermon 32 - The Third of Christ's Last Words - The third of Christ's last Words upon the Cross, illustrated.
Luke 23:43
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be wit ...read |
| › Sermon 33 - The Fourth of Christ's Last Words - The fourth excellent Saying of Christ upon the Cross, illustrated.
Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ...read |
| › Sermon 34 - The Fifth of Christ's Last Words - The fifth excellent Saying of Christ upon the Cross, illustrated.
John 19: 28.
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, t ...read |
| › Sermon 35 - The Sixth of Christ's Last Words - The sixth excellent Saying of Christ upon the Cross, illustrated.
John 19: 30.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is fini ...read |
| › Sermon 36 - The Last of Christ's Last Words - The seventh and last Word with which Christ breathed out his Soul, illustrated.
Luke 23: 46.
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, ...read |
| › Sermon 37 - Christ's Funeral illustrated - Christ's Funeral illustrated, in its Manner, Reasons, and excellent Ends.
John 9: 40, 41, 42.
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in l ...read |
| › Sermon 38 - Christ's Humiliation - Wherein four weighty Ends of Christ's Humiliation are opened, and particularly applied.
Isa. 53:11
He shall see the travail of his soul, and be s ...read |
| › Sermon 39 - The Resurrection of Christ - Wherein the Resurrection of CHRIST, with its influences upon the Saints Resurrection, is clearly opened, and comfortably applied, being the first Ste ...read |
| › Sermon 40 - The Ascension of Christ - The Ascension of Christ illustrated, and variously improved, being the Second Step of his Exaltation.
John 20:17.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me ...read |
| › Sermon 41 - Christ at God's Right Hand - The Session of Christ at God's right-hand explained and applied, being the third Step of his glorious Exaltation.
Heb 1:3.
When he had by himself ...read |
| › Sermon 42 - Christ's Advent to Judgement - Christ's Advent to Judgement, being the fourth and last Degree of his Exaltation, illustrated and improved.
Acts 10: 42.
And he commanded us to p ...read |
