The Fountain of Life Opened

Secondly, And to increase the splendour of that day, and drive on the Triumph, his Resurrection was attended with the Resurrection of many of the Saints who had slept in their Graves till then, and then were awakened and raised to attend the Lord at his rising. So you read Matth. 27, 52, 53. And the Graves were opened, and many bodies of the Saints which slept arose, and came out of the Graves, after his Resurrection; and went into the holy City, and appeared unto many. This wonder was designed both to adorn the Resurrection of Christ, and to give a specimen or handsel of our Resurrection; which also is to be in the virtue of his. This indeed was the Resurrection of Saints, and none but Saints, the Resurrection of many Saints, yet it was but a special Resurrection, intended only to show what God will one day do for all his Saints. And for present to give Testimony of Christs Resurrection from the dead. They were seen and known of many in the City, who doubtless never thought to have seen them any more in this world. To enquire curiously as some do, who they were, what discourse they had with those to whom they appeared, and what became of them afterwards, is a vain thing. God hath cast a veil of silence and secrecy upon these things, that we might content our selves with the written Word, and he that will not believe Moses and the Prophets, neither will he believe though one arise from the dead, as these Saints did.

Secondly, And to increase the splendor of that day, and drive on the Triumph, his Resurrection was attended with the Resurrection of many of the Saints who had slept in their Graves till then, and then were awakned and raised to attend the Lord at his rising. So you read Matth. 27, 52, 53. And the Graves were opened, and many bodies of the Saints which slept arose, and came out of the Graves, after his Resurrection; and went into the holy City, and appeared unto many. This wonder was designed both to adorn the Resurrection of Christ, and to give a specimen or handsel of our Resurrection; which also is to be in the vertue of his. This indeed was the Resurrection of Saints, and none but Saints, the Resurrection of many Saints, yet it was but a special Resurrection, intended only to shew what God will one day do for all his Saints. And for present to give Testimony of Christs Resurrection from the dead. They were seen and known of many in the City, who doubtless never thought to have seen them any more in this world. To enquire curiously as some do, who they were, what discourse they had with those to whom they appeared, and what became of them afterwards, is a vain thing. God hath cast a vail of silence and secresie upon these things, that we might content our selves with the written Word, and he that will not believe Moses and the Prophets, neither will he believe though one arise from the dead, as these Saints did.