A39663:1918
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.
DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Jesus Christ was decently interred,1 by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.
DOCT. That the dead Body of our Lord Iesus Christ was decently interr'd,1 by a small number of his own Disciples; and continued in the state of the dead for a time.
- 1Doct.
This Observation containing matter of fact, and that so plainly and faithfully delivered to us by the Pens of the several Evangelists; we need do no more to prepare it for our use, than to satisfy these two inquiries, why had Christ any funeral at all, since his Resurrection was so soon to follow his Death? And what manner of funeral Christ had?
This Observation containing matter of fact, and that so plainly and faithfully delivered to us by the Pens of the several Evangelists; we need do no more to prepare it for our use, than to satisfie these two inquiries, why had Christ any funeral at all, since his Resurrection was so soon to follow his Death? And what manner of funeral Christ had?
First, Why had Christ any funeral at all, since he was to rise again from the dead within that space of time that other men commonly have to lie by the wall, before their interment; and had it continued longer unburied, it could see no corruption, having never been tainted by sin. Why, though there was no need of it at all upon that account that a funeral is needful for other bodies; yet there were these four weighty ends and Reasons of it.