The Fountain of Life Opened

First, We shall find it to be a very obscure and private funeral. Here was no external pomp or gallantry. Christ affected it not in his life, and it was no way suitable to the ends and manner of his death. Humiliation was designed in his death. And state is inconsistent with such an end. Besides he dyed upon the Tree, and persons so dying don't use to have much ceremony and state at their funerals. Three things show it to be a very humble and obscure funeral, as to what concerned outward glory, with which the great ones of the earth are usually interred. For First, The dead body of the Lord was not brought from his own house, as other mens commonly are; but from the Tree. They begged it of his Judge. As who should say go bring the Corps from Tyburn. Had they not obtained this favour from Pilate, it must have been buried in Golgotha. It had been tumbled into a pit, digged under the Cross. Secondly, As it was first begged, then buried; so it was attended with a very poor train. A few sorrowful women followed the Bier. Other men are accompanied to their Graves by their Relations, and Friends. The Disciples were all scattered from him. Afraid to own him dying, and dead. Thirdly, And these few that were resolved to give him a funeral, are forced, by reason of the straights of time, to do it in shuffling ⟨p. 510⟩haste. Time was short, they take the next sepulchre they can get, and hurry him away that evening into it. For the preparation for the Passover was at hand. This was the obscure funeral which the body of the Lord had. Thus was the Prince of the Kings of the earth, who hath the Keys of Death and Hell, laid into his Grave.

First, We shall find it to be a very obscure and private funeral. Here was no external pomp or gallantry. Christ affected it not in his life, and it was no way suitable to the ends and manner of his death. Humiliation was designed in his death. And state is inconsistent with such an end. Besides he dyed upon the Tree, and persons so dying don't use to have much ceremony and state at their funerals. Three things shew it to be a very humble and obscure funeral, as to what concerned outward glory, with which the great ones of the earth are usually interred. For First, The dead body of the Lord was not brought from his own house, as other mens commonly are; but from the Tree. They beg'd it of his Judge. As who should say go bring the Corps from Tyburn. Had they not obtained this favour from Pilate, it must have been buried in Golgotha. It had been tumbled into a pit, digged under the Cross. Secondly, As it was first beg'd, then buried; so it was attended with a very poor train. A few sorrowful women followed the Bier. Other men are accompanied to their Graves by their Relations, and Friends. The Disciples were all scattered from him. Affraid to owne him dying, and dead. Thirdly, And these few that were resolved to give him a funeral, are forced, by reason of the straights of time, to do it in shuffling