fn Contríinng .Otn'O3a btmption. 437 reft. For 'tis not conceivable that God would by hisAl- Chap. 22. mightyPowerhave rais'dHim from the Grave to a glori ousLife,(and it is impoffibleHe fhould be otherwife)ifHe had taken the Nameof the Son of God in vain, and ar- rogated to hìmfelf Divine Honour, and only pretended that he was fent from Him : By the Refurrec.lion HeRom. I. was declar'dto be the Son of God with Power. For that being the proof of his Mi/on, juftifies the truthofhis Doctrine, andparticularly of the quality of God's Son which He always attributed to Himfelf. NowifInfi- delityobject, that we who live in the prefent Age have no fenfible teftimony that Chrift is rifen, and what affu- rance is there, that the Apoftles who reported it werenot. Deceivers or deceived? In Anfwer to this, I will brief- ly thewhow valuable the Teftimonyof the Apoftles is, and worthy of all acceptation ; and that 'twas equally impoffible they fhould be deceived,or intend to deceive. His Death is attefted by his Enemies. l'acitus a Pa- gan relates that HeSuffered under Pontius Pilate. And. the 3erros to this day are fo unhappyas to boaft of their being the caufes ofhis Crucifixion, and call him by a_ name that is themarkof his Punifhtnent. But his Re- furreétion they peremptorily deny. Now the Apjiles. beingfent to convert the World, were to lay this down as the foundation oftheir Preaching,.that Jefus Chrift was rais'd from the dead, that all might yield Faith and Obedience to Him. This was their fpecial charge, as St. Peter declares : Whereforeofthefemen which have . companiedwith us, all the time that theLord jefus went, inAft. 2. r . 20.. andout among us, beginning from the BaptifmofJohn, un- s 41 to thefame day that he was taken upfrom us, muff be one 3z. ordained to be a witnefs o fhis Re.fitrreaion. Theywere . to teftific concerning His Do&rine and Life, Hi s Mira- cles and Sufferings, but principally His RefurreEtion, For this reafon St. Paul, who was extraordinarily. admitted.
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