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A85735	A demonstration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and therein of the Christian religion. Very usefull for the further satisfaction and confirmation of all good Christians; as likewise for the confutation and conviction of those that have a Jewish or atheisticall spirit in them. / Written by Richard Garbutt, Bachelour in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Sydney Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards preacher of the Gospel at Leeds in Yorshire [sic].	Garbutt, Richard.; Jackson, Nathaniel, d. 1662.; Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1656 (1656)	Wing G207; Thomason E1693_1; ESTC R202150	67,066	193

much affliction with joy of the holy Ghost And St. Peter speaking of the sufferings of Christians and fiery triall of their faith what testimony gives he them scil this that through their faith though they saw not yet believing they rejoyced with joy unspeakeable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1.8 And they that read Ecclesiastical history know that the Martyrs and Confessours went so joyfully to their sufferings that divers considering it were converted all wondred their adversaries that tormented them fretted fretted and were full of greife to see them so full of joy to see them goe to the stake as if it had been but to a bonefire to be merry also to see them burne in the flames as if they had been but beaking in the sun to see them stretching on the rack as if they had been stretching themselves on their beds of Ivory to see them that all the rest of their life through a Christian gravity and modesty looked like mourners see them now have such cheerfull countenances as if nothing but mirth and joy sat in their faces c. whence therefore had the primitive Confessours and Martyrs this extraordinary grace of sufferings to suffer so universally so invincibly so patiently so joyfully but from the power of the holy Ghost Vse 1 Use First If their be such evidences of Christs Resurrection then this may let us see the great necessity of Christian faith how necessary it is to believe as we believe how can I but believe that which the sufferings of so many Martyrs and Confessours the lives of so many Saints the powerfull conversion of so many Gentiles the strangeness of so many miracles the Apostolikeness for extraordinary graces in the first preachers the impossibleness of those eye-witnesses their being either deceivers or deceived the harmony also and consent of the old Testament the very record of the Jews how can I but believe that which is witnessed unto by all these If I will needs yet let infidelity lurke in my heart how many things have I may justly condemne me Moses and the Prophets that foretold these things shall condemne me those eye-witnesses that witnessed his Resurrection which if wilfully I shut not mine own eyes must needs appeare to me could neither be deceivers nor deceived shall condemne me those first preachers that could not have their extraordinary grace but from the power of him that was risen from the dead shall condemne me those strange miracles that strange conversion of the Gentiles that strange sanctity and holiness of converts that strange suffering of Martyrs that could none of them have been but by the power of him that was risen from the dead shall all condemne me if I believe not now the Gospel how justly am I condemned Wee are all ready in reading the story of the old Testament to condemne the Jew that he should be in many things so stubborne and unbelieving notwithstanding such manifest declaration of Gods presence among them but if all things were well cast up wee shall find that we have more reason ten to one to believe under the Gospel then they had under the Law and if an infidel-Jew may well go to Hell an infidel-Christian deserves to sinke far the lower there An infidel Jew if he believed not it was still a thing to come that he believed not the infidell Christian a thing past Christs Resurrection an infidel-Jew had no argument almost to confirme his beliefe but the consideration of a little strange miraculous working the infidell-Christan hath arguments above all miracles and moreover miracles above all Moses his miracles and therefore let us by the evidences of Christs Resurrection and so consequently of the whole Gospel for the Resurrection is the seale and warrant and complement of all therefore in their choice of a twelfth they name nothing thing but onely to be a witnesse of the Resurrection Act. 1.22 let us hereby charme and conjure out of our hearts all infidelity and let us establish our selves in our most holy faith this how necessary it is not onely to believe but also to see the necessity of our beliefe let two places teach you Luke 1.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scil That thou maist know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed And These things have I written to you that believe 1 John 5.13 that ye may know that ye have eternal life If it had not been a necessary thing and of much use to labour to see the necessity of Christian faith the one would not have rendered it for a reason in the beginning of his Gospel why he writ his Gospel and the other in the end of his Epistle why he writ his Epistle and therefore first if there be such evidences consider the necessity of Christian faith Vse 2 Secondly If there be such evidences of Christs Resurrection let us see the necessity of Christian life if there be such compelling arguments to perswade me to see the necessity of Christian faith then what remains but that in the next place I should thinke of the necessity of Christian life How dare I live as an Atheist if I cannot but professe and believe as a Christian how dare I cast away my commandements if I cannot but embrace my creed how dare I make so little of the holiness of the Gospel if I cannot but acknowledge the truth of the Gospel Verily this is the condemnation of many that Christian faith being so cleare Christian life is so bad This is the condemnation that light is come into the world sc not light hid under a cloud or under a bushel John 3.19 but light appearing to be light yet men love darkness rather then light John 15.24 And If I had not done among them the works which none other did they had not had sin c. And When the Spirit is come he will reprove the world of sin John 1.7 because they believe not on mee And They shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day-time 2 Pet. 2.13 When the truth of the Gospel is so cleare that if indeed there were any cause why thou mightest doubt of the truth of the Gospel if the mouth of all infidelity were not sufficiently stopt if Gods truth and testimonies were not very sure Psal 93.3 Credibilia factanimis then som reason there might be of thy hankering and hovering and back-hanging in the course of a godly life but if the truth of the Gospel be so plaine beware of hardning thy heart against the holiness of the Gospel He whom the truth of the Gospel convicts the holiness of the Gospel being neglected shall confound The wrath of God sayes the Apostle is revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men Rom. 1.20 who hold the truth in unrighteousness even the truth shewing it self onely in the evidence of nature much more in the evidence of the Gospel

that weight value as to add the least grain of allowance or acceptance to this or any other the like performance yet being requested to deliver my opinion of it I could not but say thus much that the learned and pious Author hath herein at least to my apprehension approved himself * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2 8 a workman that needed not be ashamed yea * Cor. 3.10 a wise Master-builder in the Church of God as having very solidly and judiciously stated and asserted that grand fundamentall article the main pillar indeed of our Christian faith our Saviour Christs Resurrection the truth whereef he hath undeniably prov'd and demonstrated as well by invincible arguments and strength of reason as also clear and evident testimonies and texts of Scripture and that both for the further confirmation of all true Christians and the fuller conviction of all gainsayers whether Atheisticall Jewish or Hereticall Spirits And truly I do not remember to have seen so much Scripture and reason better improv'd in so narrow a compass nor more artificially enterwoven and twisted together and helping one another by a mutuall compliance for the strengthening and support of so substantiall a truth In a word I look upon the Treatise as verifying and performing exactly what it promises in the Title if not more It being a * most perfect and complete Demonstration Demonstratio potissima or rather a twofold Demonstration as Logicians distinguish the one proving the thing * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was so the other the finall cause or end * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why it was so the one cleering the truth and reality of it as in it self the other declaring the fruit and benefit of it as to believers the one in the former the other in the latter Point or Observation And in both these the Authour shows himself to have been a man singularly well skill'd both in the Theory and Practice of true Christianity of an able head and an honest heart of a strong brain and a gratious spirit The Doctrinall part of the Discourse being not more solid and sinewy in confirming the truth and settling and informing the judgment then the Practicall wholsom and savoury in speaking to the conscience and pressing holiness and purity of life and the power of godliness In which regard I heartily recommend the perusall of it to all good and sober Christians especially in these wavering warping and back-sliding times wherein so many have degenerated and * Turned Apostate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 4.1 departed from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and * 2 Pet. 3.17 being led away with the errour of the wicked have fallen from their own stedfastness and I conceive for want of thorow conviction and sound instruction in these main fundamentall truths of the Gospel JAMES DUPORT READER I Wondred not when I met with those expressions of holy triumphing in Gregory Nyssen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nys Orat. 5. de Resur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id Orat. 1. de Resur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Hier. Catech. 14. let us extol the Resurrection of the Conqueror the joy of the world the life of all Nations since as he elegantly tells us the Divell our destroyer gaping to devour the bait of Christs flesh when he dyed was struck through and caught with the hook of Christs Divinity when he arose from the dead and as Cyril expresseth it he who by suffering was free among the dead by rising again manifested that he both could and would free the living The asserting of this blessed truth is the noble subject of this learned Treatise I wish I might have been allowed the secret tasting of its Divine delicacies without proclaiming to the world how well I rellish'd them and the rather because this excellent discourse is as far from wanting as are our slight pamphlets from deserving Commendation T is too low an Expression to say this work deserves my prayses worth of a middle size may be so commended I rather judg that my prayses are not worthy of it and may hope that my testimony will rather finde acceptance from it than it from my Commendation When first it came to my hands it found me in such a croud of business that I hardly could finde time to begin the reading thereof but truly when I had once begun to peruse it I as hardly knew how to make an end of reading till I came to the end of the book with such an honest delight did it rob me of the thoughts of my other employments and yet neither must I call it a robbery it was but a change and that an advantageous one for it brought me more benefit by its perusal than I parted with by forbearing for a time my other reading And reader I assure my self if thou art a friend to Christ and thy self thou canst not but with sweetest contentment view the Exaltation of thy dearest Lord and Master in his Resurrection and thereby thine own from the grave both of sin and earth so clearly and fully demonstrated The Authour of this Treatise I never knew and he is now above the resentment of earthly Commendations and therefore tentation I had none either by receiving or expecting any friendship from him to speak so freely of his book but might I dear Christian prevail with thee to read love and live the truths thereof all that good is succesfully obteyned which is I trust sincerely endeavoured by the testimony of thy servant for thy Souls good WILL. JENKYN Pastor of Black-fryers London Nov. 27. 1656. Christian Reader BEing desired to peruse this ensuing Treatise concerning the Resurrection of Christ and to expresse my thoughts of it though my testimony can adde nothing to the worth of it and very little to its acceptance in the world yet the excellent contexture of Scripture and reason which I have found in it requires me not onely to approve it but commend it The subject treated on is that of highest concernment the great pillar of our faith hope as the great Apostle argues 1 Cor. 15. and the maner of handling it is in good measure answerable to the weight and worth of its subject Some may possibly think that this great article of faith needs no Demonstration And I have sometimes been of that conceipt that some principles were so cleare they needed no confirming and some opinions so absurd they needed no confuting but I find my self deceived for in these dayes wherein our lot is fallen there is no truth so cleare and fundamentall but it meets with them that doubt it and deny it and no errour so ridiculous and unreasonable but finds them that will embrace and maintaine it Therefore I cannot but judge the publishing of this worke very seasonable both for confirming the faith of believers for faith despises not reason but

huge army of tall souldiers well appointed and runing with their naked bodies in the thick of them should deale their blows so fast and so bestirre them that they should kill some wound others lead others away Captive vanquish all and themselves receive no harme would not all say that this were a work Divine What were the twelve silly Apostles but these twelve men unskilfull of warre c what was the whole world but a huge huge army of tall souldiers well appointed against them what was the running of those twelve men with naked bodies into the midst of the army but the venturing of the Apostles upon the pikes point in the midst of the world up in arms against them what was the bestirring themselves so of those twelve men killing some c. but the bestirring themselves so of the twelve Apostles in the world as to subdue a great part of it upon the field and to foile all the rest that they could not withstand them what was the receiving no harm of those twelve themselves in the midst of all that garboile but the continuing of the Apostles so long undestroyed amidst all the uproare and garboile of the world against them Having obtained help of God I continue unto this day continue in spite of all the worlds being in an uproare against me witnessing both to small and great c. And Act. 26.22 We have this treasure in earthen vessels 2 Cor. 4. that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us What was the Apostles subduing the world and casting downe every high thing that exalted it self against the knowledge of God but the silly Rams horns making the high walls of Jericho fall downe flat Joshua 6.20 or Gideons silly Barley cake tumbling in the hoste of Midian and overturning the tent Judges 7.13 And therefore to put all together whence but from the power of him that was risen from the dead sending the power of the holy Ghost upon the Apostles and their labours could such a Doctrine to such a world by such twelve or thirteen men to adde Paul to the dozen have beene effectually preached surely he that was set at the right hand of the Father had remembred what he had said John 15.16 I have chosen you and ordayned you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remaine And this this was that did the deed else what hope that they should have gone and brought forth such fruit in the conversion of the Gentiles such plentifull fruit such lasting fruit Not without good cause for one part of the mystery of Godliness is this 1 Tim. 3.16 God believed on in the world not without good cause that Paul calls the worke of the Gentiles-conversion the opening of a doore Act. 14.27 1 Cor. 16.9 2 Cor. 2.12 Act. 12. Chrys Hom. 34. and 76. in Matt. Hom. 7. in 1 Cor. if God had not miraculously opened this doore as he made the Iron gate to open to Peter of its own accord the Gentile had stood without for ever Fourthly Whence had the primitive Christians and Converts such extraordinary grace of holiness of life but from the power of him that was risen from the dead sending the power of the holy sanctifying spirit upon them Act. 2. Consider those three thousand first converted Act. 4. And the five thousand Consider their extraordinary piety unity community Their extraordinary piety ' towards God testified by their zeale in religious exercises They continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine c. Their extraordinary Vnity or agreement among themselves And all that believed were together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not so much in place for three thousand one place would hardly receive them as in affection they were of one heart and one Soul Act. 4.32 Lastly their extraordinary community for communion of all things to the mutuall help one of another and had all things common c. See but the backwardness now adays in these Christian duties and acknowledge their forwardness in the same to have been the very finger and worke of Gods spirit They continued stedfastly or indefatigable in the Apostles Doctrine c we perhaps are but quarterly or monthly or fortnight men or women herein or if weekly then forenone people onely or if so good as afternoone people too yet our yawnings our nods yea and perhaps our Naps too argue our sluggishness in these duties but they continued indefatigable c. Again they even the multitude of them that believed which is signanter spoken signanter that a multitude and a multitude of raw converts should be so were so united and knit in one that they had all as 't were but one heart and one Soul but one heart and one Soul to act and move so many many bodies three thousand Chap. 2. nay five thousand Chap. 4. Whereas we run division so that it were a very wonder to see now but three or five men to be that which three nay five thousand men were then even to have but one heart and one Soul laughing and weeping all together nilling and willing all the same things nay rather for five of us our Saviours words what if they proved true that five should be divided three against two and two against three but they even the multitude of them that believed being about five thousand were of one heart and of one Soul Again for outward fortunes they had all things common They that had goods and possessions sold them and they sold them not to retaine the money in their own hands to give a little as they listed but they laid it down at the Apostles feet alienating away the right of it from themselves to serve for the common stock wholly and this they did when they could looke for no other but present persecution that money in their purses in their flight when they were persecuted would have done well This they did also without the Apostles exhorting them thereto as is intimated by the phrase laid it down at the Apostles feet namely the Apostles being unwilling to receive it and plainlier expressed by that of Peter to Ananias While it remained was it not thine own c. This Lastly they did having no doubt some of them wives and children to take care for of their own and were they thinke you without affection to their own that had such affection to every Christian Let our own hearts now tell us whether this that they did could well be any thing else but the very finger and worke of the spirit this that whereas the world huncheth to give a little of that they have they gave all whereas the world huncheth to give these little in time of peace they gave their all when nothing but persecution could be looked for whereas the world not with all the exhortations that can be used they without exhortation at all whereas the world thinkes wife and children