A39663:1939
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.
Corollary 1.
1Was Christ buried in this manner, then a decent and mournful Funeral (where it can be had) is laudable among Christians.
- 1Cor. 1.
I know the souls of the Saints have no concernment for their bodies, nor are they solicitous how the body is treated here; yet there is a respect due to them, as they are the Temples wherein God hath been served and honoured, by those holy souls that once dwelt in them. As also upon the account to their relation to Christ, even when they lie by the walls. And the glory that will be one day put upon them, when they shall be changed, and made like unto Christs glorious body. Upon such special accounts as these their bodies deserve an honourable treatment, as well as upon the account of humanity, which owes this honour to the bodies of all men.
I know the souls of the Saints have no concernment for their bodies, nor are they solicitous how the body is treated here; yet there is a respect due to them, as they are the Temples wherein God hath been serv'd and honoured, by those holy souls that once dwelt in them. As also upon the account to their relation to Christ, even when they lie by the walls. And the glory that will be one day put upon them, when they shall be changed, and made like unto Christs glorious body. Upon such special accounts as these their bodies deserve an honourable treatment, as well as upon the account of humanity, which owes this honour to the bodies of all men.