Did Christ meet death with such a heavy heart? Let the hearts of Christians be the lighter for this when they come to die. The bitterness of death was all squeezed into Christ’s cup. He was made to drink up the very dregs of it, that so our death might be the sweeter to us. Alas! There is nothing now in death that is frightful or troublesome beside the pain of dissolution, that natural evil of it.
— John Flavel (1627-1691)
Fountain of Life