."' .. ·694 Book IV. Part+ Leoklng unte fefm. Chap.t.Seet.I ~--------------------------------------- Mat 17 : ~ third dffJ; yea, faid he, the Sonne ofman fbali be betrayed into the ' ,2. '2. ·hands of men, and they fhtrll k.ill him, and the third day he foal/ be Mn•• o. 18, 19 raijed agttine; and after this he tells them again,that theSovne of man /hou ld b( betrayed,-~tnd crucifietl,a,Jd the third day he fhould rife againe; fo often had he propheGed thus ,that the chiefPriefts ~>iltt~. 2.7, 6 t, and Pharifees c~me t? <pi/a~e afte~ his death,fayi~g, Sir, we re3• ·I· member that thu demver flud, wht!e he was yet t~hve, after three dayes I will rife 11gaine, command therefore that the Sepulchre be m11de Jure until the third day; And no qudHon his Difciples're. •membred thefe fayings , forfo the two Difciples travelling towards Emmam,after they had faid manr things concerning him, and that they trufl:ed it had been he, whtch lhould have redeemed Ifr11el , they added thi~ as a moft fpecial obfervation above :Luke Z4· U • all tilereft, that to day u the third daJ jince thefe things were done. Why,all thefe fignifie that his rifi.ng on the third day was the accornplifhment of prophefies, and a certain evidence that .he was .the Meffiah indeed. 3. Becaufe that time was moft fuitable for comforting his fr iends, for confo!lnding his enemies, for clearing the truth both of his humanity, and divinity ; he would fray no longer left his Difciplcs might have been fwallowed up with grief. and he Would come no fooner, left]Jis enemies fhould have u~ged that he had not died; the watchmen kept the Sepulchre till this very time, but then the Angis appearing, and the earth trembling, they became as dead men ; and as foone as they could, they run away,and with their tydings confounded all Chrifts enemies.And • .withal, as Chrift conufl:ed both of a divine and humane nature fo in refped: of his humanity, he mull: die,and to fhew his death: it was requiGte that he !hould rife no fooner than the third day; and in refped: of his divinity, it was irnpoffible that he fh01'Jld be held of death any longer than threedayes , for as he mull not fee corruption, fo God raifed him ttp, having !oofed the ACls %. l4 paines,o[death, be-c;tu{e it WM not poffiblc that he fhould be holden of it .
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