theſe Men ſhewed upon our Saviour's examination, and Trial, It was q ; vr: now the Firi# Day of the Feaſt of Unleavened Bread, the Day following 419. 4h Wh the Paſſover Night ; or (as ſome think) the Preparation both for the uk by k Weekly Sabbath.and for the Paſſover, (tho the moſt judicious Interpre- "Wha #3 ters be of the firſt Opinion) one of them 1t was ; be it which 1t would. 4100 8H
Chap. XXUII. S. LUKE. Chap. Xx1
If Atheiſm, and Irreligion had not been *.,the height amongſt cena ments ; and reſted the ſabbath day, * according to the *p,. People, had it been poſſible that the Hizh Prieſt, and the chief of re commandment. | a Prieſts, and the Rulers of the Jews, ſhould have ſpeat this Day, theft <ul the Notes on Matth. 29. 61. It is Beza's Obſervation whole time, from break of the Day till Noon, in accufing.or Condemn- theſe Verſes, That Chriſt, being oppoſed by the Devil ing Chriſt ? and then have ſpent the Afternoon, 1n mocking, and deri- inftruments, being now dead, leaveth two or three poor ding him on the Croſs as he was dying, breaking all Laws of _ it were in the Front of the Battel, inrending within a very ty, and decency, as well as Religion : Admitting Annas and Cap - without much ado, to Triumph over all theſe terrih] were not there, yet ſome of the chief of the Prieſts, the Scribes, and | |; . | the Elders, were certainly | ps and behaving aq _ oo 4 CHAP. XXIV.
indecently than the common People : The People We: ; ; Wo enfding him : Theſe were there michhe and deriding a dying | The Reſurreftion of _- ft, — to Mary Mardiene, and Fran v Perſon, But as we ſay in Philoſophy, Corrupti» optimi eſt peſſuma * two Angels, I 0; tell the * 96 they belteve mt, g=12, Do we ſhall find it true, that Men who are employed in ſacred things, Chriff —_ ime f to two -# "” Diſciples, in their journey to Bra. if the true fear of God be not in them to make them the beſt, they | mars, and in breaking of Bread, 13—32. They return to Feruſel om, are certainly the vilcſt and worſt of Men. We read of no rudenefſes _ ang ene cg the urn agg $3—39- Chriſt appearing offered to our Saviour dying, but from the Scribes, Chief Prieſts, to all bis Diſcizles, ſheweth them his hands and feet, and exe), -- Rulers, and Soldiers. Theſe verſes alſo afford us great Proof of the | their preſence, 36—43, Explaineth the Scripture ts them, ani immortality of the Soul; otherwiſe the penitent Thief could not | promiſeth his yy to Comfort them, 44—4g. having bleſſed ard that Day have been with Chriſt in Paradiſe as Chrilt promiſed, v. 43. | 74ken his leave of them, aſcendeth up into Heaven, 50—5, Nor would Chriſt have committed his Soul into his Fathers hand, if | We W upon the firſt day of the week X*, very ear|:
. . 1 ly FL oe it had been to have expired with the Body, and have vaniſhed into . . - "* Air. For other io which concern this part of the Hiſtory of our in the morning, they came unto the lepulchre,
Saviour's Paſſion, See the Notes before mentioned '#n Matth. 27. bringing the ſpices which they had prepared, and Certain
from v. 35, to 50. mn _ _ 4 Mary the Mother of 74; , ary Magaalene, an ary tne Mother oft Z7oſes, were t! * Mark Ig. 47 " Now when che __ ſaw what anos _ Women that took up their feat right over againit the Sepulchre, t, 35, 4 he plorified God, ſaying, Certainly this was a righteous | ſee where Chriſt was laid, Matth. 27. 61. Mark 15, 4 Ther. man. 2 F = 3" | i bought ſpices, ſome time of that Day after they knew he muſt Djs 48 "And all the people that came together to that ſight, ' or clſe they bought them immediately after his Burial, as they went
- ; : he . ' home, for they reſted on the Sabbath-Day. They had ng beholding the things which were done, {mote their breaſts, , ET IIs 2d nn, = ar
and returned. : bY i Day of the Week. (See the Notes on Matth. 28. r. as to the part!. 49 And all his -1 mg and the women that fol- | cyjar time) intending to ſhew their laſt a@ of love to their Fn
lowed him from Galilee, ſtood afar off beholding theſe , by imbatming his Body.
things. | 2 And they found the ſtone rolled away from the ſepul. For a perfe& knowledge of all my pgs "_ wa happen, chre.
after our Saviour's nailing to the Croſs, till he died, and was taken, 4 o. Þ:h Foſeph had rolled to the Mouth of
down to be buried, a!l the Evangeliſts muſt be conſulted. We have], 1. hq 147d ag Body, Matth. 27. 60. Es To
made a Collettion of them in our Notes on Marth. 27. from DT ſealed, v. 66. and which as they came walking they were ſo trouy'
to v. 57. to which the Reader is here referred. This paſſage about about, how they ſhould get it removed, Mark 16. 3. How it;
the Centurion, is taken notice of both by Matthew and Mark ; only | to be rolled away Werke blot wa. od; 8. v2 ame
they ſav, he ſaid, Truly this was the Son of God. Luke ſaith, that he : a BOOT
ſaid, Certainly this was a Rizhteows Man. PoTibly the ſenſe 1s the 3 And they entred in, and found not the body of the
ſame, and the Centurion by the Son of God, 4id not mean the Sm of ; Lord Jeſus.
God by eternal Generation, but one highly favoured of God, a r1 hte- Probably when they entred in, they ſaw no Angd?s, for one m;
ous Man, and very dear to God, and highly beloved of him, for 1t | reafonably ſuppoſe, that if they had, they would hardly have adre
muſt be by a yorv extraordinary Revelation and impreſſion if he had | tured to enter in, but at their coming out being ſatisfied that the Body
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ed divinitus excitatum ſtatuit. The Centurion determined, that . ;
Eeriſ was no ordinary Perſon, but one ſtirred up by, and ſent of i + And it came to paſs as they were mth Perplexed God. It isobſervab'e, that Chrift had a teſtimony from all orders of | thereabour, * behold, wo men Itood by them in ſhining, Men almoſt, except the Scribes, and Priefts, and Phariſees. Pontius garments, ;
yy _ OE "vb Pilate, and Herod, declared him innocent. V7late's Wife acknow. s And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces