inConítcíbín ar nn'olfteaenrptíon: 441 lieve this Truth. When the Teftimonyofthe Angels Chap. 22. allured them that Hewas rifen, they received it with ./'Y' doubting wonder and troubledjoy, andwere fufpend- eclbetween Hopes and Fears : and at hisfirf Appear- ance they were vehemently furpriz'd. They faw Him dieon the Crofs three dayes before, and their Memories wereRill filledwith the frightful images of his Suffer- ings, fo that theywere ballanced between the prefent Luk. 2437,39. testimony ofSenfe, and the frefh remembrance of what 43 they had feen. Therefore He juftified the truth ofhis Refurretion to all their Senfes. He difcourfed with them, made them feel his Wounds, eat and drink with joh. z. .. them, fo that 'twas impoflible they fhould. be deceived unlefs willingly. Thus by thewife difpenfation ofGod, . their doubting bath confirmed our Faith. Thirdly, TheUniformity of the Teftimony makes it valuable upon a double account. Eire, as it fecures us, there was nocorruption in the: Witnefles. Secondly, That it was noElution. r. That there was no Corruption in the WitnefFes. Themolt prudent way todifcover the falfity of a Tefli- mony, is to interrogate the.Witneffes feverally, to fee iftheir be any contradiEtion.between them. But if they concur not only as to the Subitanee but Circumftances,. their Depofition is very credible. Now the Apoftles exaótly agreed in their Teftimony, as appearsby the fe- veral Gofpels, in which,although wrote in divers times and places, yet there is an admirable Harmony not only as to the Fast it felf, . but the leaft particularities.. z. The Agreement offo many proves it was no Illu- fon that depended on fancy for its exiftence, . for de- ceptions of the Brain are, not common to many at once as vifible bodies are, but fingular, becaufe of the vari- ety offancies. IfHe had only appeared to fome per.. funs feparately, carnal Reafon, which is ingenious to L11. dß
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