A39663:1084
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.
Inference 6.
Did Christ meet death with such a heavy heart,1 let the hearts of Christians be the lighter for this, when they come to die. The bitterness of death was all squeezed into Christs cup. He was made to drink up the very dregs of it: that so our death might be the sweeter to us. Alas, there's nothing now left in death that's frightful, or troublesome beside the pain of dissolution, that natural evil of it. I remember it's storied of one of the Martyrs, that being observed to be exceeding jocund, and merry when he came to the stake; one asked him what was the reason his heart was so light when death (and that in such a terrible form too) was before him? O said he, my heart is so light at my death, because Christs heart was so heavy at his death.
Did Christ meet death with such a heavy heart,1 let the hearts of Christians be the lighter for this, when they come to die. The bitterness of death was all squeez'd into Christs cup. He was made to drink up the very dregs of it: that so our death might be the sweeter to us. Alas, there's nothing now left in death that's frightful, or troublesom beside the pain of disolution, that natural evil of it. I remember it's storied of one of the Martyrs, that being observed to be exceeding jocund, and merry when he came to the stake; one asked him what was the reason his heart was so light when death (and that in such a terrible form too) was before him? O said he, my heart is so light at my death, because Christs heart was so heavy at his death.
- 1Infer. 6.