Ch:lp. I. Se:&. 5. Boqk lV. 421 the one was Clcoph.u, and-probable it is the other was L1<k§, who oJtt of hi• modffty con- 11"o?h fuper cMledhi< o1vr1 name, faith'Thcophilafl. Lu~. 5· He appeared unto the ten Apo!lles, when the doors were fhut, Somecontroverfie · there is in this, becau[e the Evangeltfl fmh expre!ly, that theeleven Difetples were ga· Luke '4· 31· thered r.gether ---and"' they fpak!, refm himfelf flood in the mrdfl of them. N?w vcr-36. j nda. was hanged, and Matthi.t< was not eJected, and 'Thoma< Didim'" was not wuh John •o. '4• rhem when Jefus came: how then c uld he appear to eleven Apoflles, con!Jdenng at this time there were bur eleven in all ?--Come fay it is a certain number pur for an uncertain. Others fay, that the eleven might be together when the two Difciples cam~, and when Jefuscame, TllO'ntts might be abfent, and gone from among£1: them. . And if the text be viewed well, there IS no conrradictton tn this faymg. But I mull: not dwell on controverfial points. 6. He appeared to all the Difciples, and Thoma. '~"' with them; and then he iliewed John w . 2 6. them his wounds, to f!rengrhen the weak faith of his wavering fervanrs. · ThomM would nor have believed unlefs he had feen, and therefore Chrifl Ihews him the wounds of his body, that he might cure the wounds of 'Thoma/s unbelieving foul. 7· He appeared to Peter, and robn, ":'d 7ames, and iVath~niel, and DidimtM, and John ,t. ,; tivoother Di(e~ples, when they were afillungar rhefeJ of Tzberra;: there he proved the verity of his Deity by that miracle of rhe fithes, and the verity of his humanity by eating meat with them. J\nd this \Va f the third time t!Jat he jbewed him(elf publickly and vcr. 14 • folemnly unto all, orro the moll part of hto JJifctples. · 8. He appeared unto more than 6ve hundred brethren at once; of this we read nor .in the Evangelifls, but the ApoGle Paul records it, .After that he IVM [een of above jive 1 Cor. 15 • 6, hundred brethren at or.ce, of whom the greater part remain unto this prefcnt, but fome are fallen ajleep. · 9. He appeared unto 'fames the Brother of the Lord ; ( i. ) the Cozen-german of Chrifl according to the lleOJ; he was called rames the J u£1: in regard of,his upright and innocent life. [mme in his book De viris i/luftribUJ tells m, that afore Chrill:'s death this Jamcs made a vow, that he would ear no bread rill Chrifl were rifen again from rhe dead ; and now Chrill appearing to him he commanded bread ~nd meat to be fer on the table, faying to Jamcs., 0 my_ brother, no1v ri(e and _eat, for now I am rifen atain ~ from the dead. Of thiS' Appanuon Paul makes mennon: .After th,<t he w.u feen of 1 -.or. 1 >·7· James. , 10. He appeared to the eleven Difciples on Mount Tabor in Galilee. And this Matthew intimates, when Jefus bade the women tell his brethrm that he w.u ri(en, and that they jhould go into Galilee m1d there they Jk011ld fee him, and ac- Mat. 2S. Io, cordiogly in th,rt mo11nrain 1\'hcre Jcfut had appointed them, t-hey faw him and worfhipped •6, 1 7· hm:. It •. He appeared to all his Apoflles and Difciples upon Mount Olivet by reru[Alem, when 111 the prefeoce of them aU he afcendedup_imo Hea-en. This Mountain is expref– fed by L11k!, when after Clmfl s afcenftan It Is fa1d. that the Difciples ret,rned back. to Yerufalem from the Mount calledOlt'Vet. Mb r. ''· . 12. He appeared unto Paul travelling unto Damafcut. Thi• indeed was after Ius fony daye; aboad upon the earth. And yet this Paul menrions amongfl the r•fl of Ius Apparmons, and laft of all he \VtU feen of me al(o, M of one born out of due tm~e. 1 1 Cor. lf• 8, My me~ning is nor ro fpeak,of all rhefe Apparitions in order · for of fome of them we are nwher alfuredof the order, nor of the rime. Bur of ~he mofi con!iderable, and QJof1: edifying we ll1all rrear, SECT. V. Of Chrift'> .Apparition to Mary Magdalen. ON the firflday were many Apparitions, but I fhall fpeak only to one, er two, as related by the Evangeli£1: {ohn · I· Chrifl appeared Unto Mary Magdalen apart, The .firft day of the week.. cometh Mary Magdalmearty, ll'hm it wao yet dar~ unto the {epulchrc, andfeeth the jlonetaksn John , 0 , 1 • V v 2.
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