Chap. r .Seet.4· Leokingun#o'fe[e«. · Book.lV.Part.4. 707 faid with a loud voyce,Paul, tbou art bejidfs thy fe!fe,mHohlearif• ing tf.1th m~tk! thee mad, Att. 28.z4.-But come we to our O';Vn times the refurrection ofChrift is to this day asmuch oppofed by Je~s, and Atheifts, as any one Article ofour Creede. And furely we had need to look to i•, for if Cbrifl be not rifen (as the Apoftle argues) then is om· ~Yeaching "':aine, and your .faith is a!{o vaine I Cor.15. I4. IfChrift be not riftn, ye are yet In JOUr ji.'1s ; 11nd they which are f alLen ejleep in Chrift, are perijhed, I Cor. I 5. I 7 dL of all the precious truths in the book ofGod, we had ne~d to preferve this truth,ard to be well skilled in the defending of this truth of theref urreEJionof Chri ff. Some talke of a tolleration of allReligio.ps, and fome defire that the Jews,may have free commerce amongft us, it will then be time, as I think, to be well armed at this poynt. Let the ordinary profe!fours of our times, who are of weak judgements, and fiery fpirits, look to this poynt, leaft asnow, when they cannot anfwer a Sepratift, they turne SepratiQ;s, and when they cannot anfwer an Antinomian, ahey turneAntinomians, and when they cannot.anfwer a 5eeker, ~ker, Blafphemer, they turne to them, fo when they cannot: anfwer the fub tile arguments of a Jew, tl:Jey iliould as eafily turne Jewes, an<il deny Chrift, and t he . refurred:ion of Chrift . I meane not to enter into contraverlies; only I !hall declare from what heads, arguments of this nature may be drawn. As. · · I. More generally from Gentiles grants; Jewes conceffions, typical inftructions, prophetical predictions. 2. More fpecially from thefe cleare demonftratiom, that cir... cumftantia!ly and fubftantially do prove this Chrift to have'rifen againe. · I. The arguments in general areI. From-Gentiles grants; Pilate that condemned. Chrifr , teO:ified ina lett~r t~ Tiberim Cefar, that Chrift w~s rifen again; TfTttll.l.Cont. · and therefore T•b:mu defired t.he Senate to admtt Chrifi into genr EgefppttG the ~umber of thetr gods, whtch when they refufed, Tiberim devita~rcjill'· was tncenfed, . and gave free leave to all Chriftians to profeffcz Cbrifti. Chriftianity. And to the Gentiles, Sybilla left written thefe very words, He ~all end the necejfity of death by three dayes Jleep, lind thm returmng from death to life againe, he foal/ be X x xx ~ the
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