The Fountain of Life Opened

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⟩Alluding to the most awful appearance of God, at the giving of the Law. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom,¹ the Earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, ²the clouds also dropped water. The mountains melted before the Lord, even that Sinai, from before the lord God of Israel. Our Lord Jesus went out of the Grave in like manner and marched out of that bloody field with a pomp and Majesty becoming so great a conqueror.

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 ef 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 rayment 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, Triumphale 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 Propheess drives on the triumph in that Rhetorical Song,