Chap2o. according to St f oH N. 143 Verfe 25. I will not believe,] Ah wilfull Thomas ( quothMt Bradford, Martyr) I will not, faith. he : fo adding to his increduli- Sermon of Re ty , obftinacy. But yet Chrift appeared unto him , and would. not leefe him, &c. pent 56 Verfe 26. Thedoors beingJhut.] Although itbe faid,thatwhen Chrift came to his Difciples,the doors were fhut,yet have Ias much, to prove that the doors opened at his coming , as ye to prove that At&Mòn: he came thorow the door, Paid Robert Smith, Martyr , to the Do- f°t'IS3 Stour that difputed withhim. Verfe 27. Then faithhe toThomas ],Who was not excommu- nicated by the reft, but gently born with, till Chriftshould cure him. Neither didhe forfake theirmeetings, though hebelieved not their relation. It is good to Rand in Chrifts way, tobe found at the foddering-place, Cant.1.8. But Tome, like fpiritualvagabonds,.., as Cain , excommunicate themfelves fromGods prefence , in the ufe ofthe means : we may write, Lord have mercy upon fuch, .as utterly deplored. Verfe 28. My Lord , and my God.] This is true faith indeed,.. that individuates God , and appropriateshim to it felf. Were it ,; n;s,t not for this poflèflive ( the devil might fay theCreed to as a 7tt4 T oedr; good purpofeas we. He believes there is a God anda Chrift : but chryfot. that which torments him, is, he can fay.( My ) CO never an Article Dfthe faith. Verfe 29..BlefJ"edare they that have notfeen.] We fee Chrifh in the flefh by the eyes of the Apoftles ; like as the Ifraelitesfaw Canaanby the eyes ofthe Spies: and this is fufficient unto faith, as the Evangelift iheweth in the next verfes. Verfe 3o. eflndmany other fans, tic. ] IfCicero could fay of Socrates (whofe words Plato had recorded) and could requeft the like of his Readers , concerningLucius Craps , thát they would imagine much more good ofthem, then they foundwritten ; -how De orat.i.< muchmore might St yob, do the fame concerning Chrift Verfe 31. Thefe things are written.] He fpeaks this of the writ of the other three Evangelifts allô. Matthew wrote his Gofpel eight years after Chrift, Marh,ten, Luke fifteen, and john fourty two, in the. daies ofTrajan, He died in the lox. year of his . ewn age. , Cx.A. A':7
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