~7ro Book IV. Part+ Leoking unt~ feftM. Chap.t.Sed:.4 ---· ---~-----~----- M.trk.r6.7; I Co'r.t5 , S• j. Tbeopb. Jitpcr Lu~.: . l.uk.~f. 33• ver.J6• Joh.lO.%<f. Joh.:o.:6, homewards from the fepulchre , never any truely fought for Chrift, but with thefe women they were fure to finde Chrift. 3. He appuredto Simon Peter alone; he was the fidl: among men to whom he appeared, hefirft went into the fepulchre, and he firft faw-him that was raifed thence : he wa~ called, firft, and he confeifed Chrifr firft to be the Sonne of God, and therefore ChriO: appeares firfr to him ; the Angel bade the women to tell his Difcip!es 11nd Peter ( th-at is to fay, and Peter efpeciaHy ) that he wru rifen, and gene before them into G.t- /ilee. Of this fpeaks Pard!, he wru firft feen of Cephru and thm of the twelve. 4· He appeared to the two Difciples journying towards Emmam ; tbe name of the one was C /eophM, and probable it is theother was Luk_t, who out of his'modefty concealedhis own n11me,faith Theophila[!. · . 5. Ide appear\!d unto the ten Apofrles, wneH the ·doores were ' flmr. Some conrraverftc there is in this, becaufe the Evangelifl: faith expreifely, that the eleven Difcip!e.r were gathered together.--· and ru they fl;ak._e, '/efus himfe/fe flood in the midftofthem. Now 'fudM was flanged, and Matthiao was not elected, and Thoma& Didimm was not with them when Jefus came: how then could he appeare to eleven Apoftles, confidering at thi5 time there were but eleven in all ? -tome fay it is a certaine number put for an uncertaine. Others fay,th<tt the eleven might be together when the two Difciples came, a-ncl whenJefus came, Thomru might be abfent, and gone from amongfl: them. And if th~ text be viwed well, there is no contradiction in this faying. But I muLl: not dwell on contraverfial poynts. . . 6. He appeare41 to all the Difciples,andThomru wru with them· ahd then he fhewed them his wounds, to llrengthen the weak faith ofbis wavering fervants. ThomM would not have beleeved unleife he had feen,and therefore Chri!l: fhews him the wounds of his body, that l1e might cure the wounds of Thomao's unbeleevingfoul. · 7· He appeared to Peter, and 'John, and 'Jamr.s, and Nathaniel, and Didimm, and two other Difciples. when they were a filhing at the fea ofTiberiru : there he proved the verity of hif geity by that miracle of the fi!hes,and the ver.ity ofhis humanity by eating meat
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