70t Book. IV Part.4. L6okJngu1$to 1efus. ' Chap.x.Secr.3 I adhere to thde, though we need not to exclude the former, for .1 the ftone might be removed, both that Chnft might come forth, asd that the women might be convinc'c that he was rifen again, But as for the opinion of them who think the ftone wasnoc re. moved till after the refurredion ; and that the body of Lhrift went through the grave ftooe when he rofe again, it is without all warrant; the very order of nature wdl not permit that one body fuould paffe through another, without corruption oralteration ofeither; we fay two bodyes cannot be together, and at once, in one proper place; no more than one body can be together, and at once, in an hundred , or a thoufand places; now that angelical argument is full for this,he is not here,for he is riftn· Mlr.~B.6. be is not:' in the grave, for be is rifen opt of the grave; h~ could not be in the grave; and out 0fthe grave at one and the fame time. But I meane not to dwell on contraverfial . poynts. 5. That (brill:.rofe againe accompanied with others; and the Mlr. t7.ft, 53 gr 11 ves were opened, and many bodies of s~ints which fl-pumfe, and c{lme out·of the graves v~fter his refurreaicn , and went into the hely City,and appeared unto many. It may be the graves were opened when Chrift was layd down in hts grave, yet the fp irits c-anH: net into the dead bodies till Chrifts refurredion; the text is plaine, that they came nt't out of their graves till Chrifi was raifed; C l S Chrif.l. is the beginning, (faith the 1\poftle) the fitft borne frorrt 0 ' 1 ' 1 ' - 'J' h h fi ft r b the dead; ow t e r -borne' I an.wer, oth in ttme and efficacy; r . In time , be rofe to eternalltfe the firft ofall men. This was the fumme af Puuls preaching,that Cbrifi fuould fuffer, and that he fbvuld L•e the jirH 1h1t (hould rife from thr dead. It is Act~G.:,3. true indeed) that Lazarw and fundry others rofe before Chrift, but they rofe to live a mortalltfe, and to dye againe; Chnft was the firft of all that roft to eternal life ; never any in the · world rofe before Cbrirt in this manner. 2. In refped of effica~ cy, Chrift rofe firfr, that by hi< power all the reft might rife; there is in Chrifts refurredion a revivmg and a quickning vertue ; and herem is a maine dtfference betwixt the rdurrctl:.on of Chrift , and the refurred:ion ofany other man; the refurredion of Abrah~~m avayles nothing to the refurrection of Ifaac, or of ]11cob ; but the re{urred.on of Chrlft avayles to the r.efur:ectio~ of all that have belm·ed, or tha~ iliall bdeeve tn htm; t! · · · · ---- ·----- - ... not
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