The Fountain of Life Opened

First, The first ground of comfort which a believer carries with him to the Grave is, that the Covenant of God holds firmly with his very dust, all the days of its appointed time in the Grave. So much Christ tells us, Matth. 22.31, 32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and of Jacob. God is not the God of the Dead, but the God of the Living, q. d. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are naturally dead, but in as much as God long after their deaths, proclaimed himself their God still; therefore they are all alive, federally alive to God. They live, that is, their Covenant relation lives still. Whether we live, or whether we die (saith the Apostle) we are the Lords, Rom. 14.7, 8, 9. Now what an encouragement is here! I am as much the Lords in the state of the dead, as I was in the state of the living. Death puts an end to all other relations and bonds, but the bond of the Covenant rots not in the Grave. That dust is still the Lords.

First, The first ground of comfort which a believer carries with him to the Grave is, that the Covenant of God holds firmly with his very dust, all the daies of its appointed time in the Grave. So much Christ tells us, Matth. 22.31, 32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and of Iacob. God is not the God of the Dead, but the God of the Living, q. d. Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, are naturally dead, but in as much as God long after their deaths, proclaimed himself their God still; therefore they are all alive, foederally alive to God. They live, that is, their Covenant relation lives still. Whether we live, or whether we die (saith the Apostle) we are the Lords, Rom. 14.7, 8, 9. Now what an encouragement is here! I am as much the Lords in the state of the dead, as I was in the state of the living. Death puts an end to all other relations and bonds, but the bond of the Covenant rots not in the Grave. That dust is still the Lords.