Ambrose - BT200 A42 1658

7o6 - Book IV..P.:m.4. Lo~klng M3to :Jeftu. Chap.x.Secr.4 and that by hisrefurrection at the lafi day We !hall be raifed? for 1\om.?. 11. if the Sp1rit of him that raifed up {efm from the dead jha(l alfo quick§n our mortal badin ; and that by his refurrecrion finally we {hall be faved ? for after. we are raifed, we jhall never dye any more, but be equ11l unto the eAngds , tmd be the Lltl~·~o. 3 6, c.hildrm of God, tU being the child~en of the refurreCfion of • Chrift• . Thus far ofthe pofition, Chrift rcfe againc the third day. Now for the proofe. . . ------·------ -~-· ---- SECT . 4• 0/theargHmrntsof Chrifts refurreffion. CHri.ft after hu paf!ion /hewed himfelfe 11/ive /;y many-infa!lihl~ proofes. And fo he had need to perfwade men into th1: faith offo fi:range a truth ; if.we confult with antiquity, or novelty, with primitive times,· or later times, never was matter c:arryed on with more fcruple, and flowneffe of belief, with more doubts and difficulties than was this truth ofChrifis refurrecrion. Ma7 M ;rgdaltn faw it firfi: and reported it, but theybeleeved her not Mark. I 6. I o. the two difciples that went to Emm.:m they ' . ' fa wit alfo and reported tt, but rhey belerved them net, Luk.z4 .3 7· divcrfe women together faw him, and came and told the difciples, but thrir words feemed tothem M idls. tales , and t hey beleeved thtm n,ot, Luk.24. I I . They all faw him and even feeing him, yet they b.eleeved n9 f or joy, but wondrrd, Luk.24.41. when the wonder was over, and the refi told it but to one that happened to be abfent , youknow how peremptory he was, not he, rxcept he[.twin hu ha111ds the pri;Jt of the nayfes, 1md put hi.r fingers into theprint of tbenayle.r, and thrujt hu h.rnds intohuflde, hewouldnotbe!eew, Job. 2 0 . 2 5. - In after-times the whok wodd fi:or tthei r eares at this report of the rr(urre8ion of Chrifl , it was with the Grecians at Athem a very fcorne; when they heard oftherrfurretlion of t/li< dead, fome moe bed, ACt .17 3 2. It was with Feftm the great . ;R,•. map f<ll. ; /ct., a!ick~effe of the braine, a plaine phrenzy ; Feftm faid.

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