Chap. t. Sect6. Book IV. 431 you on earth as formerly ; my riling is in refe~< n ·e w my afcending look how the flars no fooner rife, but they are'immediately In thetr afcendent? fo Chnfl no fo oner rifen. but he his pref~ntly upon his afcending up. But whither will he afcend ? to his Father, and our Father ; to his God ard 011r God. Every word is a flep, or round of !•cobs ladder ; by which we may afcend up into heaven : As, 1, Father h _a ~amc of much good will : there is in it bowels of compaflion, Oh what tendernefs ts ma Father ?and yet many a Father wants good means to exprefs his good will unto Ius cluld ; now therefore God ts added that he may not be thought to be .defective in that way ; Oh BleiTed _melfage ! this is the voyce of a Father to ills Son ; all that I have is thmc ; now tf thts Father be alfo GoJ and if all that is Gods be a!fo ours, what can we defire more than allluk. •i'· 3'' that God' hath · or all that ever God was won h I Oh but here's the quellion, whether his Father and God be alfo ours ? that he is Chrifts Father, and Chrifls God, is without all que(\ion but that his F11her D10uld be our Father; and that his God D10uld be our God, this were a Gofpel indeed ; 0 then what a Gofpel is this; Go to my bretheren, and fay mJto them, rh.1t our relations tmd interefrs are all bl!t _one ; the fame Father that t5 mine is rheir--s,_~he [ am-: Go~ t~at U mine is theirs ; his relations are made ours, and our relauons are made hts tnrerchahgably. No wonder if Lucher tell us that the b& .divinity lay in pronounes ; for as there is no comfort in heaven without God, and no comfort in God without 'a Father, fo neither is there comfort in Father, heaven, or God, without ouYS, to give us a property in them all. 0 the bleffed news that Chrill cells M ary, and that M ary tells us, I afcend to my Father, and yol!r Father, t? my God, andyour God. Oh what drill hearts have we that are not more affdted wtth thts blelfed news? no fooner was Chriit, rifen from the dead, but he takes care in all hafte to apeare to M ary ; and no f0oner he appears to her, but he fends her away. in all halle to others, g• to rAJ bretherw and tell it them, he would both have M ary and the ,refi of his Apoftlcs to hear of his loving kindnefs betimes in the morning; why alas ! they had tor fome dayes been amazed with forrow and fear, but now he provides for their joy ; and no fooner they hear the news, bur they joy according to the joy in harveft, aad a1men rejoyce when they divide the fpoyle. Chrifts refurrection was a caufe of unfpeakabfe joy to them, how is ir that we hear the fame glad tyding•, and -yet we are no more Jfa. 9· 3; affected with them ? come Chril1ians fith the occafion extends to us, and is of equal concermeot to us, let us tune our hearts ro this key ; that as upon Chrills abfence, we may weep with them that weep, fo upon his return, we may fpring out m joy' and and rejoyce with them thAt rejoyce. So much ofrhe fir!! apparition. SECT'. VI. Of Chrifts apparition to hu ten Difciples ON this lla.y fome reckon five apparitions, but of them five, as we have feen the firll, fo 1 !hall now only take notice of the !aft. Thm the fame day at even– ;ng, being the firft day of the wuk_, whm the 'doors were j/mt, where the D iciplu were affimbled f.-r fear of the Jews; came Je[u<, and flood in the midft, andlfaithunto them, IM0.•9, ul. Peace be unto you, and l~hen he h•d fo f~id he jlmved unto them his ha11dr and ht5 }"'· In thefe words we have the apparition of Chrift with all irs circumftances. As, I. When he appeared. 2. Where he appeared. 3. To whom he appeared. 4· H?w l he appeared. So neceffary was it to confirme this poynr, rhat not a need– full ctrcum!bnce mufr be waming. And firfr is Iayd down the time ; thm thefame day at evening,_being the f~ft day of the week: . . How exad: ,, the Evangelifi in this circum£1:ance of ttme.? It was the fame day, the fame day at evening ; and yer !ell the doy might be mt£1:aken, it was the fame day at eveotn~, being the firft day of the week., 1. It wa_s the fame da}' ( i.) the ve– ry day of rtCing ; he could not endure to keep them m long fufpence ; the Sun mull not down, before the Sun of righreoufnef; would apear. The fame day that be appeared to Peter, to the two Difciples going to EmmaU<, to the woman corn" •ng to the fepulcher, and to Mary M agdalen as we have heard ; the very fame day' he
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