A39663:1951
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.
From this Funeral of Christ results the purest and strongest consolation and encouragement to believers, 1against the fears of Death and the Grave. If this be so, that Jesus hath lain in Grave before you; let me say then to you as the Lord spake to Jacob, Gen. 46.2, 3. Fear not to go down to Egypt, for I will go down with thee, and will surely bring thee up thence. So here, fear not believer to go down to the Grave, for God will be with thee there, and will surely bring thee up thence. This ⟨p. 516⟩consideration that Jesus Christ hath lain in the Grave himself, gives manifold encouragement to the people of God, against the terrors of the Grave.
From this Funeral of Christ results the purest and strongest consolation and incouragement to believers, 1against the fears of Death and the Grave. If this be so, that Jesus hath layen in Grave before you; let me say then to you as the Lord spake to Iacob, Gen. 46.2, 3. Fear not to go down to Egypt, for I will go down with thee, and will surely bring thee up thence. So here, fear not believer to go down to the Grave, for God will be with thee there, and will surely bring thee up thence. This ⟨p. 516⟩consideration that Jesus Christ hath layen in the Grave himself, gives manifold encouragement to the people of God, against the terrors of the Grave.
- 1Cor. 4.
First, The Grave received, but could not destroy Jesus Christ. Death swallowed him, as the Whale did Jonah his Type; but could not digest him, when it had swallowed him but quickly delivered him up again. Now Christ lying in the Grave, as the common head and representative of believers, what comfort should this inspire into their hearts. For as it fared with Christs personal, so it shall with Christs mystical. It could not retain him, it shall not for ever retain them. This Resurrection of Christ out of his, is the very ground of our hope for a Resurrection out of our Graves. Christ is risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept,