Chap.r.Seet.s Loukingrtnt61tfus. Book. IV. Parr.4. 755 r. Thetime.4ter theje things; after the three former apparitions he comes to a fourth, and be concludes with this, as therein making fome mention of himfelfe, with which he concludes the whole book ; thi; is. the <J)i[ciple which teftiftet? the[e Yer,11; ihings, and wrote thefe thmgs, and we know hu tefttmon..J is true. 2. The place, at the fea ofTiberiM; or at the lake ofGene:~;.areth; where he had called them to the Apottlcfhip, there now be appearcs to tbefe Apofl:les; they were at firft fifh~rs, and now they are at their calltng upo 1 the fea, Chrift ftanding on the fhore. 3. The perfons to whom he appeares, they were Dijciples, the ir n~ mes are in the next verfc. All Chrifl:s apparitions were to the Diiaples ofChrift; we reade not that ever he fhewed himfelfe after his refurrection to any but to his followers; he fhcwed lumfelfc o cnly, nat to 11/l the people, but tmto witneffer, chofen before of god, even to UJ who did eat •md drink with him after . _ he rofefrom thPdead, Act.I 0.4r. {hangers to Chrift mufl: be no Act i: 0 ,4I; witneifesofChrifts refurrection, and this was his meaning; yet ee little while 11nd the wsrldfteth me no more, butye fee me, Joh. 14· lp. 4· For the manner of his apparition, on this wife foewed he himfelfe. . I. He foewed himfelfe, fo it is in this verfetwice repeated, after theft things {efm [hewed himfelfe, 11nd in this wife he foewed himfelfe. Chrift now w.u no~ ften, or i0own to the bodily qe (for cbry( hom. 86. hu body wM irnmortlll) unleffe by difPen(ation he condifcended there- i11 :fob, • t~. I deny not, but that glorified bodyes are ever actually feen ofbody.:s that are glorified; but ofmortal men who are yet in this vaile ofteares,thofe glorious creatures canl.'lot be feen aCtual• ly, except there be fome peculiar and divine difpenfation. As the ayre is too fubtile to be feen, or as the Sun is too glorious for a weak eye to behold; fo are glorified bod yes too fubtile, too fplendid for a mortal eye to pierce: our Saviourtells us that the bodyes of the Saints do {bine forth M the Sun in the Kingdome of Mat. 13 . H; their F.tther; and that they are M the <!.Angels. And the A po- Mar,u.3o. ftlco tel Is us, that their bodies are JPiritual bodies ; there is a natural I Cor. IS ·H; body, and there is afpi•itual body : now without difpenfation we cannot fee fpiritual things. And hence it is that when Chrift D d d 4 d z fuewed
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