The Fountain of Life Opened

The Tyrant that heard the poor Martyr was dead under his first torments, said as one disappointed, Evasit. He hath escaped me. ⟨p. 346⟩For he intended to have kept him much longer under torments. And it was the cruel counsel of another to his executioner; Let him die so, ¹as he may feel himself how he dies. And surely in this respect it was worse for Christ, than any other that was ever nailed to the Tree. For all the while he hanged there, he remained full of life, and acute sense. His life departed not gradually, but was whole in him to the last. Other men die gradually, and towards their end their sense of pain is much blunted. They falter, fumble, and expire by degrees; but Christ stood under •he pains of death in his full strength. His life was whole in him. This was evident by the mighty outcry he made,² when he gave up the Ghost. Which argued him then to be full of strength, contrary to the experience of all other men. Which made the Centurion when he heard it, to conclude; Surely this was the Son of God, Mark. 15.37, 39.

The Tyrant that heard the poor Martyr was dead under his first torments, said as one disappointed, Evasit. He hath escaped me. ⟨p. 346⟩For he intended to have kept him much longer under torments. And it was the cruel counsel of another to his executioner; Let him die so, ¹as he may feel himself how he dies. And surely in this respect it was worse for Christ, than any other that was ever nailed to the Tree. For all the while he hanged there, he remained full of life, and acute sence. His life departed not gradually, but was whole in him to the last. Other men die gradually, and towards their end their sence of pain is much blunted. They faulter, fumble, and expire by degrees; but Christ stood under •he pains of death in his full strength. His life was whole in him. This was evident by the mighty outcry he made,