A39663:1293
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.
Fourthly, The death of the Cross, was a cursed death. Upon that account he is said to be made [Greek or Hebrew] a curse for us; for it is written cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree, Gal. 3.13. This refers to Deut. 21.23. His body shall not remain all night upon the Tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; for he that is hanged, is accursed of God. The very Symbol of lifting them up betwixt heaven and earth, carried much shame in it. For it implied this in it, that the person so used, was so execrable, base, and vile; that he deserved not to tread upon the earth, or touch the surface of the ground any more. And the command for burying them that day,1 doth not at all mitigate, but rather aggravates this curse: speaking the person to be so abominable, that as he is lifted up into the air, and hanging between heaven and earth, as unworthy ever to set foot more upon the earth; so when dead, they were to hasten to bury him; that such an abominable sight might be removed as soon as might be, from before the eyes of men. And that the earth might not be defiled, by his lying on the surface of it, when taken down.
Fourthly, The death of the Cross, was a cursed death. Upon that account he is said to be made 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a curse for us; for it is written cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree, Gal. 3.13. This refers to Deut. 21.23. His body shall not remain all night upon the Tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; for he that is hanged, is accursed of God. The very Symbol of lifting them up betwixt heaven and earth, carryed much shame in it. For it implied this in it, that the person so used, was so execrable, base, and vile; that he deserved not to tread upon the earth, or touch the surface of the ground any more. And the command for burying them that day,1 doth not at all mitigate, but rather aggravates this curse: speaking the person to be so abominable, that as he is lifted up into the air, and hanging between heaven and earth, as unworthy ever to set foot more upon the earth; so when dead, they were to hasten to bury him; that such an abominable sight might be removed assoon as might be, from before the eyes of men. And that the earth might not be defiled, by his lying on the surface of it, when taken down.