Cbap. r .Sett.6. Looking ums Je{ m. Book.IV.Part+ 733 riling . he could not endure to keep them in long fufpence; the Sun m~fr not down, befor~ the Sun of righteoufne.lle wou d ap , peare. The fam e d11y that he , appeared to-Pe:er, to the two Difciplei going to Emmaus, ,to the womaa commg to the fepulchrc, and to ' Mary Magdalen a-s we have heard; the very fa ~e day he appears- to the ten. Oh what a blelfed day was th1s? it was the day of his refurreC!:ion, and the day ofthefe feveral apparitions. 2. It was the fame day At evening. Both at morne, noone,and evening Chriil {h , wed himfelfe a live by many infallible proofes. • Earely in the morning_he appeared to Mar]., and prefcntly after to the three. lltf~trieJ, who touched his feet, and woriliipped him. About noone he appeared to SimotJ Peter, in the afternoone hetravelled with two of his Difciples almoft eight miles -to the Cafrle of Emmam-; andin.the evening of the fame day here-. turned invifible from Emmttm to ferufalem. At all times of the day Chrift is prepared , and preparing grace for hi~ ~ople. . 3. It was the fame day at evenmg,!Jeing·the ftr.ft'day ofthe week.,. T'ii ~~~- -tifv 11'«!JStl'TD!v , that is in one ofthe Sabbaths,but the Greek -. words ate an Hebraifme, _and the Hebrews ufe often by one tO· fignifie the ftrft, as in Gen. r. 5. the evening anJ the morning were onedaJ (i .) the ftrft day. And whereas the Greeks found one of the S 11bbarhr , -rr:,P " " (3 f!«=v mull beunded1:ood either properly, fo r Sabbath;; or elfdigurat i vel ~ !:gnifdngt he whole week_; and this acception was ufual with ·the ] ews, fo· the Evangeltft brings in the Pharifee fpeaking NH>w., Jl' ~ T•ITd (l l~~n, I f 4! twice-Luk.I8 1 t• in the Sabbath (i .) in the week, for it is impoffible to fait- ~:wice . · in one day -; and hence t·he tranfiatour render it thus, primQ die - hebdo'll#ttdu, on t~e firft day (}f the week_. J n which Is a difcovery of his mercy; Clmft took no long .day'to (hew himfe!fe to his Apoftles, nay he took no day at all, but t.he very Fnfi day. ·When [ofeph fhewed himfelfe unto his brethren, he w:ould not do it at firft, and yet he dealt kindly, and very kindly with them. , 0 but Chrifrs kindnelfe is far above 'fo[ephs, for on the firft day of the week, the very fame day that he rofe from the dead he ·appeares uoto them. Thus for the time: < 2 . For the place, it is layd down in this palfage, w!ure the1J•f - ciples were 11j{embled. Now if we would know where that was, A aa a a 3 t he .,. ,,
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