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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	resurrection_n	rise_v	6,478	5	7.4970	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50461	A conference betwixt a papist and a Jew, or, A letter from a merchant in London, to his correspondent in Amsterdam	Mayo, Richard, 1631?-1695.; N. H.; Jacob, John, 17th cent.	1678 (1678)	Wing M1522; ESTC R10629	19,865	37

other Miracles with a words-speaking Some of those wonderful Cures he did on the Sabbath-day for which the Pharisees his inveterate enemies did find fault with him though they could not deny the matter of fact He made the Lame to walk the Deaf to hear the Dumb to speak the Blind to see concerning which the chief Priests and Elders had not only the attestation of by-standers but the Confession of the parties themselves whom they curiously interrogated about the thing done and his manner of doing it He cleansed many Lepers and cast out many Devils which his enemies beholding could not deny but blasphemed and said that he did it by Diabolical aid and that he cast out Devils by Beelzebub the Prince of Devils Some who were dead he restored to life again particularly one that was carrying to his grave and another that had lain some time in his grave even till his friends said that he stunk And this he did in the sight of many Jews who thereupon believed in him having seen the Miracle that he did yea the chief Priests consulted about making away Lazarus the person so miraculously raised because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus The time limited for my Discourse would fail me should I but instance in the twentieth part of those many uncontrouled Miracles which Jesus wrought in the space of three years or thereabout And when his hour was come in which he should be cut off though not for his own sins as the Prophet Daniel had foretold and should make reconciliation for iniquity and bring in an everlasting righteousness even when he hung upon the Cross and was made sin and a curse for us then there was a quaking of the Earth a rending of the Rocks yea the vail of the Temple was rent from the top to the bottom and for the space of three hours the Sun was darkned without any Eclipse which was noted as a prodigious thing by the learned Astronomers of those times one of which is reported to have said That either the God of Nature suffered or the frame of the World shall suddenly be dissolved Yea the Centurion and his Soldiers that attended had such consternation at the things that hapned that they feared greatly and said Truly this was the Son of God But above all his Rising again from the dead is most remarkable therein he declared himself to be the Son of God with power This fell out on the third day as he himself had foretold And if this one thing be cleared up it is instead of a thousand Demonstrations Now the greatest evidence that we can possibly have of a thing of this nature is the testimony or attestation of others This then is attested by a cloud of Witnesses they were not a few but many to whom he shewed himself alive and that many times after his Passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God There are but two things that can possibly be objected against their Testimony The first is That those persons who were witnesses of his Resurrection as they called themselves might possibly be deceived and that they saw a fantastical instead of a true Body But this could not be for they did not only see but feel and handle him yea one of them put his finger into the holes in his hands and feet and his hand into his side such was his incredulity They did not only feel and handle him but they did also eat and drink with him after he Rose from the dead If an Argument drawn from all those senses will not hold how then can we be sure that we our selves and all the persons we converse with are not Phantasmes and meer Apparitions And how could the Jews be sure that it was Jesus whom they crucified and secured in the Sepulchre In the same way that they were sure of the one his followers were sure of the other But if they were not deceived yet secondly they might be deceivers They might steal away the Body of Jesus by night and give it out that he was risen from the dead next morning Two things shew the incrediblity of such a thing 1. It is not credible his followers could do it The chief Priests were aware that he had spoken before-hand of his Rising the third day and they foresaw that if this happened the last error as they counted it would be worse than the first Therefore they obtained leave of Pilate to make all sure and some of them went themselves to see it done and then they placed a strong and diligent Watch to keep the Sepulchre But here it may be objected that the Watchmen fell asleep and then his Disciples came and stole him away This indeed you Jews believe to this day and we know your Ancestors hired the Watchmen to spread abroad this report But then Why were not they punished for their carelesness and oscitancy And if they were asleep How could they tell what the Disciples did And if they were awake Why did they not oppose them that did it The keepers for all their hire did make another relation of what happened How an Angel descended with great splendor whose countenance was like lightning and roll'd away the stone at the mouth of the Sepulchre which did so terrify them as that they became as dead men Is it credible that the Disciples if they stole away the Body of their Master would stay to strip him and lay the Linnen-cloths so decently by themselves Would they not rather have carried him away in his Winding-sheet especially when he was wound up in Linnen with a mixture of Myrrh and Aloes which hath a clammy and glutinous property Would they not have been afraid lest any of the Keepers should awake but stay and do so needless and difficult a work But then Secondly as they could not do this if they would so 't is not credible that they would have done this if they could Their writings their conversations shew them to be persons of great integrity and holiness whereas if they had done this thing and imposed upon the World in this kind they would have been a company not only of very wicked persons but of incarnate Devils Mahomet's villany would not have compar'd with it What to bely God in such a manner and to cry up Faith in Jesus as risen again from the dead when he is still under the power of Death and no otherwise risen than as they stole him out of the Grave This would have been hellish unparalel'd wickedness and to be abhor'd by all men of common honesty But to put this out of question there were other witnesses of his Resurrection besides his immediate Disciples He was seen in Galilae of above 500 persons at once many of whom lived a long while after to witness what they had seen And had his Disciples and others conspired together so fouly