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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38608	New observations upon the Creed, or, The first of the four parts of the doctrine of Christianity preached upon the catechism of the French churches : whereunto is annexed The use of the Lords prayer maintained / by John Despagne ... ; translated out of French into English.; Nouvelles observations sur le symbole de la foy. English	Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.; C. M. D. M.	1647 (1647)	Wing E3263; ESTC R13854	71,425	411

of Jairus Eutychus were certainly raised again the very day of their death The son of the Shunamite he of Naim Tabitha and the man which was raised from death in the Sepulchre of Elisha most probably had not yet reached to their Third Day among the dead when they returned to life As on the contrary many others have been raised after their third day to wit Lazarus and the Saints that rose from the dust when Christ rose again This circumstance of the Third Day for the Resurrection hath been appropriated to Christ and marked out for him in the Calender of the Prophets to the end that among other signes which distinguish him from all others that were raised he might be known also by this as particular to him to wit that his Resurrection befell on the Third Day according to the Scriptures When Lazarus was dead our Lord let passe the Third Day before he raised him and stayed till the Fourth Joh. 11.39 Among divers reasons of this delay I reckon this The Son of God would not raise Lazarus the same day of his decease nor before he entered into the Sepulchre because he had already raised two dead which had not as yet been put into the earth to wit the young man of Naim and the daughter of Jairus which was deceased but a few hours before Now his intention was to extend his power yet farther to wit as far as within the grave as he did when from thence he fetched Lazarus But this dead man had not his Resurrection on the Third Day our Lord having deferred if till the Fourth and hindering the concurrence of it with his own in regard of this circumstance Three miraculous Sepulchres in the holy History The Scripture mentioneth three famous Sepulchres in the which God hath given life to the dead to wit That of Elisha whose corps served to raise another dead though himself returned not to life That of Lazarus which was raised from the dead but not by himself That of Christ who rose himself and at the same time raised many others whose graves he had opened at his own death Matth. 27.52 53. The two first were preparatories to the wonders of the third The Son of God raised others before he raised himself and again in coming out of the sepulchre he carried his power into the graves of others who were raised after him Four men that raised the dead before and after the coming of Christ The gift of Miracles was conferred upon divers who notwithstanding received not the power to restore life to the dead this kinde of Miracle being reserved to a small number of them The Scripture nameth but four who exercised this power two under the Old Testament and two in the New The two first are Elijah and his successour Elisha The one raised the son of the widow of Sarephta the other the son of the Shunamite The two other are Saint Peter and Saint Paul The one raised Dorcas the other Eutychus So God raised two instruments of the Resurrection before the coming of his Son and after he was gone out of the world Christ appeared between the two first and the two last as the Sun among the Planets spreading his quickning power over the dead of the one and the other Testament The continuation of the Article of the Resurrection of CHRIST His Ascension into Heaven His Sitting at the right hand of God Christ hath verified his Resurrection by all the proofs which could be given BEing come back from the dead he hath made himself known to be living Not to one person alone but to many men and women yea to above five hundred together Not at one onely time but at many and divers times Not for a little time but for the space of fourty days Not in one onely place but in many and divers in the city in the fields within the houses and upon the mountains Not afar off but in the same chamber in a close place Not by one means but by an infinite number of testimonies By the Hearing he causeth his voice to be known By Sight his lineaments and stature By the Touch the wounds of his hands his feet and his side By his Actions going coming and eating with his disciples he shewed that he was truely alive And beside all this by all the Scriptures beginning at Moses and going thorow all the Prophets he proved the necessity and verity of his Resurrection Why God never raised any person of note to converse among men except the Messiah Of all the dead which have returned into the world to sojourn there some space of time and frequent the company of men there hath not been except our Lord any Prophet nor any person otherwise famous Those whom God raised either were children as he of Sarephta and the son of the Shunamite or young people as he of Naim the daughter of Jairus and Eutychus or without any mark of eminent quality in the Church as he that came living out of the grave of Elisha Lazarus and Tabitha For as for the Saints which appeared on the day of the Resurrection of Christ they did no more then passe by and having shewed themselves stayed not at all among mortals neither are their names mentioned in the History Whereupon it may be asked Why being raised from the dead they stayed no longer time in the world that there might have been some time to converse with them And in sum Why none of the Patriarchs or of the Prophets have been called back from the dead to sojourn a while among men as Lazarus or Eutychus But without speaking of the Fathers of the Old Testament I will yet make this question Why did not our Lord raise John the Baptist who had been his forerunner and his contemporary in the days of his flesh Was it not to the purpose that that excellent Prophet so great a light of the Church and who had suffered death for the Truth should be returned unto life as well as the daughter of Jairus or the young man of Naim It is easie to conjecture why this was not done If Abraham or David or any one of the Prophets or any one of them who wrought Miracles in their life time had returned to the world there to make their abode there had never wanted those who would have honoured them excessively If Superstition made Idols of the dead bodies of Saints how much more would it have ido●ized the very bodies themselves living after their death This is one of the causes for which God liked better to raise an ordinary man who had touched the bones of Elisha then to raise Elisha himself For such a Prophet that had been so famous in Miracles had been adored by men if he had returned from the grave to be among them There was also another particular reason concerning John the Paptist It is known how high his reputation had been After his death that was ascribed unto him which was not For when the Son