A39663:1921
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.
Reason 1. First, It was necessary Christ should be buried, to ascertain his death, else it might have been looked upon as a Cheat. For as they w•re ready enough to impose so gross a Cheat upon the world at his Resurrection, That the Disciples came by night and stole him away: much more would they have denied at once the reality both of his death and Resurrection, had he not been so perfumed and interred: but this cut off all pretensions. For in this kind of embalming his mouth, ears, nostrils were all filled with their Spices and odours. Bound up in Linen, and laid long enough in the Tomb to give full assurance to the world of the certainty of of his death. So that there could be no latent principle of life in him. Now since our eternal life is wrapped up in Christs death, it can never be too firmly established. To this therefore we may well suppose providence had special respect in his burial, and the manner of it.
Reason 1. First, It was necessary Christ should be buried, to ascertain his death, else it might have been looked upon as a Cheat. For as they w•re ready enough to impose so gross a Cheat upon the world at his Resurrection, That the D•sciples came by night and stole him away: much more would they have denied at once the reality both of his death and Resurrection, had he not been so perfumed and interred: but this cut off all pretentions. For in this kind of embalming his mouth, ears, nostrils were all filled with their Spices and odours. Bound up in Linen, and laid long enough in the Tomb to give full assurance to the world of the certainty of of his death. So that there could be no latent principle of life in him. Now since our eternal life is wrapt up in Christs death, it can never be too firmly established. To this therefore we may well suppose providence had special respect in his burial, and the manner of it.