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A65709	Aonoz tez kisteōz, or, An endeavour to evince the certainty of Christian faith in generall and of the resurrection of Christ in particular / by Daniel Whitbie, chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God, Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum ...	Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.	1671 (1671)	Wing W1731; ESTC R37213	166,618	458

Baptist who obtained so great a reputation from the Iews must have been guilty of the same endeavour to delude them Secondly not Christs Apostles as is argued from their simplicity Sincerity Interest The things they did or were obliged to pretend Thirdly Not their immediate Successors for the same and many other reasons The assurance which we have of what these Arguments suppose Coroll That what they have delivered to the World must be related bona fide and with a full conviction of its Truth BUt Fourthly Sect. I. Proleg 4. we premise That Christ and his Apostles with their immediate Successors did not endeavour to impose upon mankind nor did they Preach unto them cunningly devised Fables And 1. 'T is both incredible our Saviour would and inconceivable he should endeavor to delude the World and yet obtain so many and such stiff Assertors of his Doctrine 'T is 1. Incredible he would as having no Temptation thereunto For had he liv'd a soft and pleasing Life had he been chief among the Rich and Honorable had he not come into the World poor and lowly Zach. 9.9 had he not been despised and set at naught Isa 53.2 whil'st he continued in it had he not found Reproach and Infamy ver 12. had he not been numbered with transgressors in his death and suffered from those Persons whom he came to save I say had he not done all this he had not answered the Predictions of the Law and Prophets which yet he was obliged to do and declared in the end of his Life that he had done it He said immediatly before his Expiration on the Cross 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All things are finished and accomplished which were spoken of me Joh. 19.30 and his Disciples in their Preaching to the Jews insisted upon this as the chief Evidence of his Messiahship That he fulfilled all things that were spoken of him in the Law and in the Prophets Acts 3.18 10.43 Luke 24.44 But he well knew before he entered upon this Office what the Conditions were which those Predictions did require that the Messias was not only to perform those Mighty Things which being misunderstood by the Jews made them expect his coming in Worldly Pomp and Grandure but that he also was to come in poverty and abjectness so contrary to their Expectations that this would cause them to despise and to reject him and in the end provoke them to put him to a cruel Death It was necessary therefore that as in one respect he should perform the greatest Wonders so in the other Isa 53.3 he should be a Man of sorrows rejected and despised of his Brethren and one who made his grave with the wicked ver 9. Had he not dyed an ignominious and accursed Death Joh. 3.14 Matt. 16.21 he must have suffered under the reproach of a false lying Prophet and what could tempt him to seal so great and vile a Falshood with the loss of Life and Credit Had not this Death concluded in a most glorious Resurrection Matt. 26.31 attended with the Gifts and Consolations Joh. 7.39 Act. 1.5 8. Mark 16.7 and mighty Workings of the Holy Ghost He had been manifestly false to his Promise and Predictions and the just matter of his Disciples scorn and hatred as having made them leave their present Welfare and their Worldly Comforts to be exposed to Shame and Beggery and having promised what they must immediatly perceive to be a Lye he could not hope that they should afterwards continue to assert his Cause nor had he performed what the Prophets and the Psalmist foretold of the Messiah Psal 16.8 9. whose soul must not be left in hell nor his body see corruption and in whose days the Spirit was to be poured upon all flesh Joel 2.28 Had not the Jewish Temple been thrown down Matt. 24. Mark 13.10 and so their Laws and Worship which was confined to it cancell'd had not the City which was full of People become an heap of Stones had not his Doctrine spread it self throughout the Heathen World Zeph. 2.15 had it not famished all their Deities and made their Names to perish from the Earth he had not done the Work of the Messiah And this he could not hope should ere be done without the aids of Heaven nor that God should be engaged to assert and not confound lying Blasphemies He could not cast out Devils by Beelzebub or heal Diseases by any Magical Collusions which only was objected against his Miracles by the Jew and Gentile but his Disciples on whom this Power was conferr'd must be Instructed by him in those Arts and having thus discovered himself to them as a most dangerous Impostor and one that laid Designs to work the ruine of their Nation and Religion and his own Apotheosis and to engage the World in a new kind of Idolatry and all this under pretence of the greatest Innocence Sincerity and purity of Life and kindness to Mens Souls and Bodies I say being discovered to his Disciples to be such an one what hopes could he conceive they should desert their former Faith and quit it for so vile a Forgery which must expose them and their Nation to the worst of Evils Matt. 17.6 20.21 What Expectations could he have what reason to conceive that Men so timorous so worldly Luke 9.46 24.37 so forward to contend who should be greatest as they themselves do of themselves confess should by Humility and Self-denyal Disgrace and Poverty by Confidence and Perseverance continue to assert what could not any way conduce unto their Interest yea what it was the Interest of humane Nature to detect and oppose In fine he could not thus deceive but his Fore-runner who gave so large a Testimony unto his Mission and who proclaimed him the Son John 1.34.36 the Lamb of God the true Messias and the Saviour of the World must do so too and were this so How came the Jews to have so great a Kindness and Respect for the Confederate of an Impostor to own him for a Prophet Mar. 6.20 Matt. 24.5 Luk. 20.6 a just and upright Man to receive his Baptism and be so much affected with his Sayings as Josephus witnesseth How came they to retain the same Opinion of him after his Death and to ascirbe the ruine which befel the Author of it unto the Murther of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iosep Antiq. l. 18. c. 7. John the Baptist so great assurance have we that our Lord and Saviour was no design'd Impostor which thing we have acknowledged confirm'd to us by b Ipse est Deus quem doctissimus Philosophorum quamvis Christianorum acerrimus inimicus etiam per eorum Oracula quos Deos putat Deum magnum Porphyrius confitetur August de C.D. l. 19. C. 22. Denique tanquam mirabile aliquid atque incredibile prolaturus praeter opinionem inquit profecto videtur esse

Hortulis in locis publicis ac privatis pro sua quisque opinione certabat August de C. D. l. 18. c. 41. Et rursus Has alias diffensiones innumerabiles Philosophorum quis unquam populus quis Senatus quae potestas vel dignitas publica impiae civitatis dijudicandas alias probandas recipiendas alias improbandas repudiandasque curavit ac non passim sine ullo judicio confusé que habuit in gremio suo tot controversias hominum non de agris domibus sed de his rebus quibus aut misere vivitur aut beatè dissidentium August ibidem 103 A stipend from the Roman Emperours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lucian Hunuch p. 160. p. 161. 104 Flourished most Quaeritur saepe cur tam multi sunt Epicurei Cic. de fin Bon. l. 1. Multi postea defensores nescio quomodo ii qui auctoritatem minimam habent maximam vim populus cum illis facit Idem l. 2. p. 87.88 p. 89. Dicitur Philosophus nobilis à quo non solum Graecia Italia sed etiam omnis Barbaria commota est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Laert. l. 10. p. 712. vide p. 721. 105 The Abettors of them did accord the best Epicurus una in domo ea quidem angusta quam magnos quantaque amoris conspiratione conjunctos tenuit amicorum greges quod fit etiamnum ab Epicureis Cic. de fin l. 1. Numen apud Euseb Praep. Ev. l. 14. c. 5. 106 Hence they took up with carnal pleasures Nec equidem habeo quod intelligam bonum illud detrahens eas voluptates quae sapore percipiuntur detrahens eas etiam quae auditu cantibus detrahens eas etiam quae ex formis percipiuntur oculis suaves mentiones five quae aliae voluptates gignuntur in toto homine quolibet è sensu quae sequuntur in eadem sententia sunt totusque liber qui est de summo bono refertus sententiis verbis talibus est Cic. Tusc 3º de Epicuro Et rursus Nam singo num mentior cupio refelli istam voluptatem Epicurus ignorat quippe qui testificatur ne intelligere quidem se posse ubi sit aut quid sit ullum bonum praeter illud quod cibo aut potione avrium delectatione obscena voluptate capiatur An haec ab eo non dicuntur de fin bon l. 2. de N. D. l. 1. Non id semel dicit sed saepius annuere te video nota enim tibi sunt proferrem libros si negares His gemina habes apud Athen. deipnos l. 12. c. 12. Laert. l. 10. p. 710. Plutarch Moral p. 1098. 107 Held them the chiefest good Plerique voluptatem summum bonum dicunt Cic. de div l. 2. de fin bon l. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch adv Colotem p. 1125. vide Laert. l. 2. p. 54. Ed. St. Cic. de N. D. 108 Socrates first introduced it into families Ab antiqua Philosophia usque ad Socratem numeri motusque tractabantur unde omnia orirentur quove recederent studioseque ab his syderum magnitudines intervalla cursus inquirebantur cunct a caelestia Socrates autem primus Philosophiam devocavit è coelo in urbibus collocavit coegit de vita moribus rebusque bonis malis quaerere Cic. Tusc qu. l. 5. l. 3. 109 That there was nothing just or unjust in it self but as the Lawes of Nations made it so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristot Eth. l. 1. c. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pyrrho apud Laert. p. 262. Hujus sententiae erant Archelaus Laert. l. 2. p. 37. Cyrenaici ib. Theodorii p. 57. Aristippus p. 55. Pyrrho p. 252. Epicur us p. 302. vide Sext. Empir adv Math. p. 450. 110 The examples and worship of their Deities did give encouragement unto the lewdest actions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato de Rep. l. 2. vide August de C. D. l. 1. c. 7. Nazianz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 77. 111 Porphyry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ep. ad Anebonem apud Theod. ser 3. p. 48. 112 Amelius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Theodoret. de cur Gr. aff serm 2. p. 33. 113 A Heathen Emperour as to be writt Clamabat saepius quod à quibusdam sive Judaeis sive Christianis audierat tenebat idque per praeconem quum aliquem emendaret dici jubebat quod tibi fieri non vis alteri ne feceris quam sententiam usque adeo dilexit ut in Palatio in publicis operibus praescribi juberet Aelius Lamp de Alex. Severo Hist August Leyd ed. p. 577. CHAP. XI OF THE RESVRRECTION of our Saviour Christ THE CONTENTS PROLEGOMENA in order to the demonstration of the Resurrection of our Lord. 1. That the Apostles did presently attest the thing 2. This attestation could not be a bare-faced and notorious lye Arg. 1. from the testimony Arg. 2. from these 3 considerations 1. that our Saviours body did not continue in the sepulcher when they proclaimed him risen 2. That his Disciples did not conveigh his body thence Nor 3. was that done by any other persons who had no relation to Christ and no affection for him Arg. 3. from the consideration of the persons testifying AND thus we have dispatch'd our demonstrations of the Christian Faith We now proceed unto that Article of it from which we may infer the rest viz. The Resurrection of our blessed Saviour Which that we may conclude with Greater evidence we premise § 1. THAT the Apostles did presently attest the thing The predictions of our Lord and Saviour own'd by the malice of the Jew and all their vain endeavours to prevent what he foretold touching his Resurrection the expectation of his friends and that abundant satisfaction which they found in this particular the early records of the Christians Story and Symbols of his faith which every where inculcate it all these give in a full assurance of this truth Nay had the knowledge of his resurrection been defer'd beyond that period which he himself had fixed how impossible had it been to have cajold the world into so firme and stedfast a belief of the particular circumstances to have held up the drooping Spirits baffled hopes of his disciples or to have kept the insulting Jew from giving visible demonstrations of the vanity of their pretensions or from crying out of the imposture Could his Disciples be assured of his resurrection by frequent apparitions of him and not endeavour to acquaint the world with what so much concern'd the truth of his predictions and their hopes which was of so great importance to mankind and could not be neglected by the Disciples of our Lord they be faithfull unto the commission which they pretended Or could they be so quick nimble to conveigh his body from the sepulcher and yet their tongues be backward to proclaim him risen Would interest or reason suffer them to

pull the greatest prejudice on their cause to blast their Growing hopes and frustrate their bold adventure by an undue concealment of what their Masters promise and predictions had made so necessary to be divulged But § 2. 2ly I premise that common prudence would not suffer the Disciples of this JESUS to pretend such things in confirmation of their testimony which must infallibly render it the scorn and hatred of the world Wherefore they could not possibly pretend such things were newly acted on a publick stage and in the face of their professed adversaries which owed their being only to their phancies and of which their story gave the first account unto the world For men to certify to all Jerusalem that lately there was such a man as JESUS known throughout all Judea to be mighty both in words and deeds Luc. 24.19 Matt. 20.18 19. Mark 10.33 34. Mar. 8.31 Matt. 27.63 v. 66. one who did publickly foretell unto the Scribes Pharises the place and manner of his death the time and glorious issues of his resurrectiō and to averre that this prediction was notorious to his mortall enemies and the contrivers of his sufferings and made them industrious to secure his body watch the motions of his friends and carefully provide against what ever the most subtile malice could invent to gull their senses and put a cheat upon them 3ly To pretend the earth did quake and tremble and the watch grow pale and that dead bodys did arise and shew themselves to many which a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est Messias resuscitabit dormientes in pulvere Midrash Tillin f. 42. 1. Justi quos suscitabit Deus è mortuis in diebus Messiae Gloss in Bab 102. Sanhed f. 92. Non tantum ex libris Mosaïcis verum etiam Propheticis constat resurrectionem mortuorum conjunctam fore adventui Messiae Manasse Ben Israël de Resur l. 3. c. 2. Vide Cochum in duos Tit. Talmud p. 317. resurrectiō was a thing expected by the Jewes upon the advent of their Shilo I say to testify all this unto those persons who could as readily confute as they relate it yea whose interest it was to confute it was the most certaine way to ruine and confound their testimony had it been found a lye and consequently assures us that it must be true These things premised our Arguments will naturally result from a due estimate of these particulars The testimony and the persons testifying § 3. FOR 1. it was a relation in it self incredible whose fundamentall article contained the ignominious and accursed death of the beloved Son of God and the miraculous resurrection of a man condemned for blasphemy A thing which they might easily foresee could gain no reputation to them but of fools and madmen especially considering it found so little credit in that City where it was pretended to be done It was 2ly a testimony which did acquit this Jesus from all the calumnies and false aspersions of the Jew pronounced their greatest Rabbies an evill brood of vipers hypocrites Matt. 3.7 Matth. 16.3 ch 23. Matt. 23.17.33 Matt. 12.39 Matt. 23.33 Act. 4.11.12 Matt. 28.18 Matt. 24. Maro 13. Luc 19. fools and blind serpents and vipers a wicked and adulterous generation a divelish damned crew nay their whole Nation Guilty of the most horrid crime that could be charged upon man even the murther of the Lord of life and which assured them there was no salvation to be hoped but from that very person whom they had taken and by wicked hands had crucifyed and slaine and that all power both in heaven and earth was given to him which told them also that he would shortly come and execute the most dreadfull vengeance on their Nation which ever yet befel mankind that he would cancell their Laws bury their temple in its own ruines and cut them off from being any more a people 3ly It was a testimony delivered at such a season when all the Jews seem'd to be crouded into one Metropolis and their dispersions recollected for t' was the † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2700000 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joseph de Bell. Jud. l. 7. c. 17. Passeover and so that time when all stood bound to worship at Jerusalem Deut. 16.5.6 and when the Messias was become the universall matter of their expectation and therefore such a testimony as must be throughly sifted both by the Jew who were it true must be the greatest sinner and after a few days the greatest sufferer and by the Gentile for whom it did pretend the greatest kindness and undoubtedly would have been suppress'd had not the evidence of truth upheld it since 4ly This testimony avouched a thing no sooner done than certified to the world and the same Theatre which saw it acted heard it as soon proclaimed to the face of the professed adversaries of Christ Earthquakes and apparitions of dead men the consternations of the watch and their confessions thereupon the testimony of five hundred men eye witnesses of his ascension and many of them living when St Paul indited his Epistle to the Church of Corinth were all produced in evidence of the fact and therefore means of information could not be wanting in this case to those that sought them For can we think those Jews who persecuted Paul whilst preaching in the Synagogues of Asia and afterwards impeached him at Jerusalem would not enquire into the truth of this his confident report among them or that St Paul should be so wholly void of reason as to divulge a lye so palpable in such a place where there were Jews abundant to evince its falshood and in an Epistle to be read in all the Churches of the World And yet this testimony so incredible in it self so contradicted by the Jew so punctual and yet so various in its circumstances so fresh in its delivery which underwent so critical and severe a scrutiny I say this testimony found a reception more incredible than it self For the bare relation of it converted thousands which nothing but the insuperable force of truth and the more pierceing influence of Heaven could so miraculously have effected § 4. OUR second demonstration of the Resurrection of our Saviour will arise from three conclusions First that our Saviours body was removed from the Grave For its continuance there must surely have discovered the falsehood of this bold assertion and made all other ways of confirmation of it not only needless but absurd whilst by an ocular demonstration any one might have perceived the truth and discovered the impudent folly of all those who durst affirm that it was risen from the dead 2ly The disciples of our Saviour cannot be justly charg'd with its conveiance from the Sepulcher for besides the no advantage nay the assurance of the worst of miseries which could attend the promulgation of this doctrine they dream'd of a Messiah who should sway the Scepter and subdue the Nations under them and when they found it