the Spirit, could by the {ame Power have rolled away the > Bur as it was fir, thar the Angels who had been Witneſſes ſhould alſo be Witnefles of his RefurreQtion ; thar tc who was juStified in the Spirit, ſhould be je-n of Anget;, 1 Tit. 3. 15, {o it WAS NECCHATY: tharthe keepers might give a juſt Account m9 Pilate, te Cicf P! tejts and Scribes, And no wonder that they were airaid, and as dead Men , when as all dyporitions of this z4C 6 a , G
" naturaliy 4 ; ; Cll cs upuln chem, and mizhr juſtly tear whar their Maſters ſhould Ji\ts » y
{vr them, when they found the Body was mitfing ; eſpecially op {ecin.7, or being ſenſible ot the Eurihquiche, or great Concul- fog ot che Air. (For though we tranſlare ic Earthquake, yer the Greek faich no more than oer91425 pay as.) Befides, rhar the vreſence of the Angels feemed reatonabie to prevent a Chear, by os tome other Dead Eody into the Sepulchre, and to direct "> Women who were now coming toward the Sepulchre, for nov Were nor yer come : when they were come, they found rhe <tone rolled away : And Matthew's Relation how the Stone came :noved; was doubrlets nor from rhem, but from the Keepers, or thme £o whom they had relared 1c.
- And the angel an{wered and ſaid unto the wo- mcn, Fear not ye: tor I know that ye ſeek Jeſus, which was Cruvciiied,
\.. 6 He isnot here: for heisriſen, * as he ſaid: 7 come ke the place where the Lord lay.
- And go quickly and tell his diſciples that he 1s ritcn {rem the dead; and behold. he goeth before you :oGalilee there ſhall ye ſee him; lo, have rold you.
$ And they departed quickly trom the ſepulchre, with tear and great joy, and did run to bring his diſciples word.
by Sronces o; his Paſſion,
1k, chap. 15. $,5, 7. And entring into the Sepulchre, they [op 4 young Mm ſirting on the right-ſide, cloathed in a long white gar - "ment, ana they were affrighted, And he ſaith to them, be not af- frighted; you ſeek, Jeirs of Nazareth, which was Crucified : be Pr ii en, he 3s not here : behold the place where they laid him. But go viur 32.19, and tell his Diſciples, and Peter, that he goeth bef:re you jt) Galilee; there ſhall ye jee him, as he ſaid unto you. And they went out quickly, and fled from the S:pulchre, for they trembled, wid were amazed, neither ſaid they any thing unto any Man, fr they were gfraid, Luke faith, chap. 24. 3, 44 And they entred in, and fund not the Body of the Lord Feſus. And it came to paſs, as they wii much perbleaed thereabout, behold, two Men food by them in ſhi- ring Garments, And as they were afraid, and bowed down their Fa - 2, 12 the Exrth, they ſaid unto them, Why ſeek ye the living among th: dead 2 he is not here, he is riſen. Remember how he ſpake ppto yu, while he was yet in Galilee, ſaying, The Son of Man muſt be de- livred int» the Hards of ſinful Men, and be crucified, and the Third Dy riſe again. And they remembred his Wards , atd returned from the Sepulchre, and told all theſe things unto the Eleven, and all the 1:8; it was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the Mother > James, and other Women which were with them, which told theſe things to the Aps$les, and their Words ſeemed to them as Idle Tales, and they believed them not, Fohn faith, of Mary Magdalene only, hap, z0. 2, Then ſhe runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and the 0- thzr Dijciple whom Jeſus loved, and ſaid unto them, They have taken away the Lord out y + Sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. Matthew, in this Relarion, omitreth many chings more diſtinly related by che other Evangelifs. When the Women came to the Sepulchre, they firſt entred in, ſo fairh Mark and Lik: ; ir was within that they ſaw the Angel, habited as 1t were in a ng White ſhining Garment ; they were affrighted, (as we na- turally are upon Apparitions,) they bowed down their Faces to the Earth, The Angel bids them nor ro fear, he knew that ticy tought Feſus of Nazareth, who was crucified ; Why ſeek ye the living among ſt the dead * He is not here ; he #s riſen. Shewerh to tem the Place where his Body was laid; minderh them oft C:rift's Words cothem in Galilee, chap. 17. 23. bids chem $O rell lis Difciples, (ark add: ; and Peter, ) thar he was going before theminco Galilee, and thac there they ſhould ſee him, as he had lad unto them, Mat. 26. 32. Mark 14. 28. They quickly de- parced from che Sepulchre (as Matthew faith ) with fear and great yy, Mark faith, trembling and amazed, 7ohn doth nor ſay, ancelieving, but he ſaith ic in effe& ; for he ſaith, thar rhey ſaid © Sin Peter , They have taken away the Lord out of the Sepulchre, art w2 bnow not where they have l1d him. The cauſe ot cheir *car and Amazmenr, was doubtleſs the Apparition of the An- hl The Cauſe of their tudden Joy, was the News char he was vn, rold them by rhe Angel. Ir appeareth that their Joy was *ut Hadden Haſh of Paſſion, nor riſing trom the certainty of their >3U's, a5 to the Truth of whar they heard, becauſe they faid ro ine Diſciples, rhar they did not believe ir, bur upon ſecond "12s, concluded that ſome Body had removed our Saviour's 6:4y; neither did che Apoſtles themſelves believe 1r, as appear- cm by Lube, he faich, rhey looked upon 1t as an Idle Tale. John ih exprefly, chap. 20. 9. As yet they knew not the Scripture, that "2 8/2 riſe again from the dead. They knew it notionally; bur R <VG!0 norgive a firm and a fixed Afent to it, they did nor be- "© Ht Ic was nor, ic ſeemerh, in the Power of their Wills to "ISVE DS Article of Chriſt's ReſurreRtion ; for as they had a Divine Revelation of rhe rhing trom Chriſt himſelf, ſo we cannor wit ak they had Mind and Good-will enough to believe ir.
ur God had not given them the Power of Faith as to this vill,
9 And as they went to tell his diſciples, behold, ſeſismer them, ſaying, All hail. And they came,
ws. A 2 , 4 . 2 held him by the feet, and worſhipped him. 10 Then ſaid Jeſus unto them, Be not afraid * go
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fright us; and tey had ſuch a Conſcience of
i Lord, and that he had ſpoken theſe things unto her.
{hall they ſee me.