white Garment; * firft fitting with- 6. But the Angel faid unto them; 7. And go, tell Peter and the reft of his Difciples, that he is rifen from the Dead; and that he will appear to them + Ch. xiv. in Galilee, as he foretold them before his Death. 28. 8. At this News, the Women partly 9. And thus the Refurrection of faw a young man fitting on the right fide,clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. 6 And he faith unto them, Be not affrighted: ye feek which was crucified : Jefus of Nazareth, he is rifen, he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. 7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter, that into Galilee: there he goeth before you fhall ye fee him, as he said unto you. 8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the fepulchre; for they trembled, and were amazed: neither faid they any thing to any man ; for they were afraid. 9 Now when Jefus was risen early, the firft day of the week, he appeared firft to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had caft feven devils. *This Circumftance is mentioned by St. Matthew, ch. xxviii. 2. But contracted by St. Luke, ch. xxiv. 4. and by St. John, ch. XX. 11, and 12. See alfo the Note on Luke xxiv. 4. * 10. Now at the firft Sight of him, Mary knew him not. But when Jo. xx. by his Difcourfe he had made himself 14. known to her; and confirmed, by an Ocular Demonftration, what the Angel had before told her; fhe went and affured his Difciples, who were difconfolate and lamenting at his Death, that he was certainly risen again, and alive. II. But they, notwithstanding this 12. Afterward, Jefus appeared again, 13. And these told the reft of the 14. Again, after this, Jefus fhewed himfelf to all the Eleven Apoftles together, as they were fitting at Meat. And he reproved them for their Dulnefs, in not remembring the Promife which he had in his Life-time so often made to them of Rifing again; and for their Unbelief, in not crediting those who had already feen him after his Refurrection. 15. And thus, during all the Time between his Refurrection and Afcenfion, he continued appearing to his Difciples, confirming their Faith, and inftructing them in the Nature of the Gospel, and the Means of Propagating it. And he faid: Go ye into all Parts Parts of the World, and Preach the 16. He that embraces my Religion, and by Baptifm enters into an Obligation to obey it, and lives accordingly; fhall be faved. But he that rejects the 16 He that be lieveth and is baptized, fhall be faved; but he that believeth not, fhall Gofpel, either by obftinate Unbelief, be damned. 17 & 18. And, for the more fpeedy 19. And now, when Jefus had given these and many other the like Inftructions and Promifes to his Difciples for Forty Days together, he led them out into the Mount of Olives, and afcended vifibly into Heaven in their Sight, and fat down at the Right Hand of God the Father, having all Power in Heaven and Earth committed unto him for the good of his Church. 20. After which, the Difciples, being filled with the Holy Ghoft, travelled from Jerufalem into all Parts of the World, preaching the Gofpel every where with wonderful Success, and confirming their Doctrine with undeniable Proofs. 17 And these figns fhall follow them that believe; In my Name fhall they caft out devils, they shall speak with tongues, new 18 They fhall take up ferpents, and if they drink deadany ly thing it fhall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the fick, and they fhall re The EN D. |