! 1 754 Book:IV.Part.4. Looklngunto1e[t~s. Cbap.I. Se~.~ Job.~ 1,1, t~ fee God in his glory, Ma jefty, greatnelfe, goodnetfe as my God ; to fee aU the attributes of God as thofe things that my fpul hath an intereft in; to fee Chrift coming from the Father for me, to be my Redeemer; to fee Chrift in whom aU fulneffe dwells, in whom the treafures of all Gods riches are, not only Chrift dying as a man, but rifing as God for me ,. and my fa!vation ; to fee Chrift, and then to lay hold on Chrift, and to fay, my Lord, and my God. 0 this is theworkofa precious faith· . · and to this now is Thoma~ arriv.ed in this confeffion of his, . mj Lord, and my God. · 2. Hereupon follows Chrifts commendation and correction. Jefus faith unto him, Thoma~ ,becaufo the<-~ haft feen me, th~u haft b'eleevrd; blrf{ed are they that have not feen,and yet have belreved. In the firft place Chrift commends Thoma~•s faith , bec11u[e thou haft [em me, thou haP beleeved, q. d. thou feell: me a man, but conGdering how I am rifen from the dead, thou beleevefr in me as God ; I commend thy faith, but •tis a weak faith in refpect of its . rife; now therefore to correct it, I pronounce thofe bleffed to all generations, that when I am gone, as in regard ofmy bodily ~efence, yet, the.y will beleeve in me; . b!ef[ed are-they that have not feeN, and yet have beleeved. ' I am afraid of tcdioafneffe, and therefore I {hall not . enlarg~. any more on this appa~ _ rition. _,__n-- ___..... ' SE:C 1'. 8:~ Of ChrijiJ app.trithn to fome of hU. .Apoftles aM be fea 'fF Tiberia~. THere is hut one apparition .more· recorded by {ohn; after ·' _ thefe things 'fefm {hewed himfelfo againe to the Di[ciples o~t ' the fea c{TibtriM, and on thu wife /hewed he himfelfe. In thefe apparitions the Evangelil.l ufeth one and tl.re fame rriethod; As ., in the former, fo here againe is fet down the cime when, the place where, the perfons to whom , the manner how he . appeared ; not one of thefe circumfta{Jces mull: be , wanting to fhl!W the evidence and .certainty of his refurrect:ion. · J • . The .
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