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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40096	A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord maior of London, and the Court of Aldermen, &c., on Easter-Monday, 1692 being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1692 (1692)	Wing F1723; ESTC R37351	17,587	40

I say the Witnesses of our Lords Resurrection were at first most averse to the Belief of it They were so far from being Credulous that never were there more unreasonably incredulous People They would not believe the Resurrection of their Lord till invincible irresistible Evidence had compelled them to it Secondly These Witnesses had not onely the forementioned but all imaginable Evidence given them of His being Risen As some of them were informed thereof by Two Angels and as they all saw Him and heard Him speak and He shewed them His Pierced Hands Feet and Side so they farther Handled Him they Ate and Drank with Him they Conversed with Him and that not once or twice but at times for fourty days together So that well might S. Luke say That He shewed Himself alive after His Passion to the Apostles by many infallible Proofs Acts 1. 3. And at last after He had given them Commission to Preach and Baptise and promised to be with them to the end of the World they saw Him ascend towards Heaven till a Cloud received Him out of their sight And therefore S. John begins His first Epistle with these powerful Words That which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our Hands have handled of the Word of Life c. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you And those Words of S. Peter do well deserve to follow these tho' they chiefly relate to what he and two other Apostles saw before Christs Death viz. We have not followed cunningly devised Fables when we made known unto you the Power and Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but were Eye-witnesses of his Majesty For He received from God the Father Honour and Glory when there came such a Voice to Him from the excellent Glory This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased And this Voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with Him on the Holy Mount 1 Ep. 1. 16 c. Nor was He onely seen by the Eleven Apostles and the forementioned good Women but by above five hundred Brethren at once as S. Paul told the Corinthians adding That the greater part of them were at that time living And after His Ascension He was seen by this Apostle too in his Journey to Damascus and that in so astonishing a Brightness as both blinded his eyes and struck him to the Ground And He farther spake audibly these Words to him Saul Saul Why persecutest thou Me 'T is in vain for thee to kick against the Pricks And asking Him who He was he received this Answer I am Jesus whom thou persecutest So that He who was an outragious Persecutor of the Witnesses of our Lords Resurrection was now compelled to be one of that Number and became as Couragious an Attestor of it as any of those he before had persecuted And many years after this our Lord appeared to His beloved Disciple in the Isle of Patmos in the most Glorious Form His Countenance being as the Sun when it shineth in its strength And so terrified was he with the sight that he fell as dead a his feet Apocal. 1. 17. And when I saw Him I fell at His feet as dead and He laid his Right Hand upon me saying unto me Fear not I am the First and the Last I am He that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive forevermore And have the Keyes of Hell and Death And Lastly His so abundantly performing His promise of Sending the Holy Ghost was so great an Evidence of His Resurrection and Ascension too as a greater was not possible to be given He made this Promise not only before His death but likewise immediately before his Ascension Some of his last words to His Apostles being these That they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the Promise of the Father which they had heard of Him And they waited no longer than ten days for the Accomplishment thereof For on the tenth Day there came a Sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and filled all the House where they were sitting And there appeared Cloven Tongues like as of Fire and they Sate upon Each of them And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance c. Acts 2. beginning And v. 43. We read that many wonders and signs besides that of Speaking all Languages for the Preaching of the Gospel throughout the World were done by the Apostles Nor did the Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Ghost quite cease for at least the three first Ages or till Christianity became the Religion of Nations when it was protected by the Emperours Sword and Encouraged by their Laws By which means the Church was under no necessity of the longet Continuance of those Gifts To our Lords Accomplishment of this Promise may be added the wonderful fulfilling of his Threats against the Jewish Nation for their Obstinate persisting in Unbelief and His prediction of the Destruction of Jerusalem which came to pass within fourty Years after his death And 't is marvellous to see what an Exact Agreement there is betwixt Josephus his History of the Miserys that then befel that People with divers Circumstances relating to them and our Blessed Lords Predictions of them Thirdly The Apostles Witnessed most boldly their Lords Resurrection before His Crucifiers and most deadly Enemys Nor could they be deterred from it by all their Threats nor by the Executions of them neither And therefore Chose to Suffer not onely the greatest Shame and Ignominy but all manner of Calamitys and the Cruellest deaths rather than desist from Preaching this Doctrine He who had been so great a Coward as to deny Him in his very presence and to be scared thereto by a silly Maid had the Courage to Own him even in the midst of His Murtherers after the Descent of the Holy Ghost Ye men of Israel said He Acts 2. 22 c hear these words Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among you by Miracles Wonders and Signs which God did by Him in the midst of you as you your selves also know Him being delivered by the determinate Counsel and fore-knowledge of God ye have taken and with wicked hands have Crucified and slain Whom God hath raised up having loosed the bands of death because it was impossible He should be holden of it c. And in the next Chapter he and S. John having cured a Cripple before a great Confluence of People at one of the Gates of the Temple he immediately declared to them that this they had done by the Power of that Jesus whom they had Murdered Ye men of Israel said he v. 12. why marvail ye at this Or why look ye so earnestly on us as tho' by our own Power or Holiness we had made this Man to walk The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob hath glorified His