/ - "- 69·1 Boolc.IV.Part-4- Lookingunto1e(us. Chap.). Sed.t boade upo!,l earth after his refurred:lon Now in all the tranfacrions of chis -time, I lball only take notice of thefe two things. I. Of chis refurrection. 2. Of 1,1is apparitions; for firft he rofe, and fecondly he lbews himfelfe that he wa~ rifen ; in the fid.l: is the poficion, in the fecond is t9e proofe. , 1. For the pofition, the Scripture tells us that he rofe againe the third day. In this poynt I lball obferve thefe particulars. 1. When he arofe. 2, Why he arofe. 3. How he arofe. 1. When he arofe ; it wa~ the third day after his crucifying, . 11-hr.I.z, 40, ~s {onM wa; three dayes, 11nd thne nights in the r:,-·hafes belly, fo fha/[t be Son ~f man be three dayes and three nights in the he11rtoj the eArt h. This was the time he had appointed: and this was the time appropriated to Chrift , and marked om for him in the callender of the Prophets; ofall thofe whom God raifed from d~ath to life; there is not one that was raifed on the third day, but Jefus Chrift; fome rofe afore, and fome rofe after; the fon of cbe Shrmamite, the fon of the widow of Serrphr11h, the dlughter of { i1ir1u , he of N aim, and fome ochers_rofe afore. La-<..arm.,_ and the Saints that rofe againe from the dufi whe~ Chrift rofe, frayed·longer in the grave, But Chrift takes the day which difcovers him to be the Meffiah; Thm it is written, 11nd Lulc,l4-•46 ·- thus it brhoved Chrijf to fujfer,&to rife from the drnd the third dar. Had herofe foo.ner, a doubt might have been of his dying; and bad he h·en longer, a doubt might have b~en of his rifing; he would rife no fooner ; becaufe in fome difeafes, as in the Apo- . p!exy, or fuch like, examples are given of fuch as feeming to be dead, have indeed re <· ived; and he would lye no longer in his grave, becaufe in all d~ad carkalfes .(and efpecially in a wounded ' body) f>utrefa&ion and corruption begins the third day; this may bP gathered by the ftory of Laz,arm in the Gofpel, · where Jeiu:; commanding the llone to be rolled from his grave, i'vfartha J~b. rJ-.39· his fifter an livered. L ord bythis time he ftink§th, for hf hath been dead f orm d,ry,e J. Now the body ofChrill (as it was prophefi'ed) muii: not corrupt,for tho11 wi.ft not /eave my fbul in hell, neither Pfa!, ' 6 · 10 ' wilt thou fuff'er thy hr ly one to fee corrupricn. Marke this text ; all men lball rife againe, b~1t their bodyes muft firft fee corruption; onJy the Mdfiah was t.o rife. ag~ine , b~fore h.e faw corruption, am!
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