The Fountain of Life Opened

So then, there remains no doubt at all of the certainty of Christs Resurrection, it was so, and upon all accounts it must needs be so, for you see how great a weight the Scriptures hang upon this nail. And blessed be God it's a nail fastened in a sure place. I need spend no more words to confirm it, but rather choose to explain and open the nature and manner of his Resurrection, which I shall do by showing you four or five properties of it. And the first is this.

So then, there remains no doubt at all of the certainty of Christs Resurrection, it was so, and upon all accounts it must needs be so, for you see how great a weight the Scriptures hang upon this nail. And blessed be God it's a nail fastned in a sure place. I need spend no more words to confirm it, but rather choose to explain and open the nature and manner of his Resurrection, which I shall do by shewing you four or five properties of it. And the first is this.

First, Christ rose from the dead with awful Majesty. So you find it in Matth. 28.2, 3, 4. And behold there was a great Earthquake, for the Angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sate upon it; his countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as Snow, and for fear of him the Keepers did shake, and became as dead men. Humane infirmity was not able to bear such heavenly Majesty as attended the business of that morning. Nature •ank under it. This Earthquake was as one calls it, Triumphal Signum. A sign of Triumph or token of Victory given by Christ not only to the Keepers and the neighbouring City, but to the whole world, that he had overcome Death in its own dominions, and like a conqueror lifted up his head above all his enemies. So when the Lord fought from heaven for his people, and gave them a glorious, though but Temporal deliverance, see how the Prophetess drives on the triumph in that Rhetorical Song, Judg. 5.4, 5. ⟨p. 548⟩