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The harmony of the Gospels, in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels, in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ, from his incarnation to his death and burial. / Published by John Eliot, teacher of the church in Roxbury. ; [Two lines from Acts]
printed by John Foster, 1678
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.
Pilate granted to Joseph at his request the dead body of Jesus Christ, these two honourable men took it down from the Cross, they prepared a fine linen burying Sheet, newly bought for this purpose, they wrapped up the body with the aromatics in decent manner, carefully laying Aromatics upon all his wounds, in hands, feet, side, back, head, or else where. They carried the body into a garden hard by, which was Josephs, where was a new Sepulchre, hewen out of a Rock, which Joseph had prepared for his own burial, in which never yet had any man been buried; there they did at present lay up the body, the approaching of the Sabbath permitting them to do no more: they rolled a great stone to the door of the Vault, which shut it close up. And so they departed.
Pilate granted to Joseph at his request the dead body of Jesus Christ, these two honourable men took it down from the Cross, they prepared a fine linnen burying Sheet, newly bought for this purpose, they wrapped up the body with the aromaticks in decent manner, carefully laying Aromaticks upon all his wounds, in hands, feet, side, back, head, or else where. They carryed the body into a garden hard by, which was Josephs, where was a new Sepulchre, hewen out of a Rock, which Joseph had prepared for his own buryal, in which never yet had any man been buryed; there they did at present lay up the body, the approaching of the Sabbath permitting them to do no more: they rowled a great stone to the dore of the Vault, which shut it close up. And so they departed.
Lo here we find the dead body of Jesus Christ separated from his Soul, laid up among those that are gone down to the pit, under the power of death, and the grave, in the very bottom of his humiliation.
His Soul was in his Fathers bosom, in Paradise, far out of the reach of the Enemy, though in a suffering condition, because in a state of seperati•• from his body, there was he pleading and interceding for the Church. The good women observed diligently where he was buried, purposing after the Sabbath to perfect his embalming, for which purpose they brought and prepared sweet Spices,