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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

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

factum est nescierunt in Ps 55. Stulta insania si vigilabas quare permisisti si dormiebas unde scisti in Ps 36. and so lyars are not to be believed or it was true and then how could they tell what hapned foolish madnes if thou wast awake why didst thou suffer it if thou wast asleep how didst thou know it Secondly it is more then too incredible they would do it would they that being Jews knew well what God and Religion meant have dared to have father'd such a grosse forgery on God it is the argument one of them which our Apostle here instanceth in If Christ be not risen then are we found false witnesses of God which some might thinke irreligious and profane wretches that they are to be no such great argument yet weigh it well in these persons the Apostles and a forcinger argument cannot be brought for how canst thou imagine that the Apostles who being no such fooles as appears well enough by putting the wise Jews so to it to call councell upon councell against them would of themselves without Divine warrant have attempted so foolish a thing as the preaching of obedience up and down the world to a crucified man no otherwise risen from the dead then by stealing his body out of the grave what hope could ever they have of any successe No hope from him whom they preached whose own consciences told them he was yet in the power of death no hope from God whom they so foully belyed no hope from any thing in themselves not from eloquence and excellency of speech to perswade they were but rude and illiterate men not from wealth and riches to corrupt shoos on their feet and a staff in their hand was most of that they had not from authority and greatnes to awe and prejudice they were but contemptible fishermen the like not from number and multitude to overrun and subdue they were but eleven silly sneaks that had all run away when their Master was apprehended no hope therefore from any thing in themselves no hope further from any docibleness and inclinabliness of the parties to be perswaded not any inclineableness of the Jew Not him but Barrabas and Crucify him Crucify him was the loud and joynt cry of the Jew the Jew was hardned therefore against any such Doctrine it had been as easie for these fisher men the Apostles to have spoken to the fishes of the Sea to have made them follow them on the dry land as to have spoken to the people of the Jews to have made them follow them in the Doctrine and beliefe of Christs Resurrection upon their own bare word they that cared not for all Christs miracles when he was alive but Crucified him were they likely to have believed the bare assertions of fishermen for his Resurrection Not any inclinableness again in the Gentile Act. 17.32 it was that they mocked at when they heard of the Resurrection it was that that Paul was glad to qualify with this argument of insinuation in the beginning when he was to speake of it to the Gentile Act. 26.8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead be it a thing never so hard why should it be thought above Gods ability to do It was that also that when Paul was in the earnestness of his speech about the assertion of it Act. 26.24 made Festus break out with a loud voice and say Paul thou art beside thy selfe was the Gentile therefore likely to be inclinable to this Doctrine especially Christs suffering being publick and all seeing it and his Resurrection being private and underhand and but a few supposed witnesses of it and those few opposed almost by all that nation the nation of the Jews that if there had been any such thing should have brought the knowledge thereof unto the Gentiles would they therefore that were no stark fooles have gone about a thing of so great folly wherein they had no hope of successe from him that they preached as not risen no hope from God as belyed by them no hope from any thing in themselves as being without eloquence without riches without authority without multitude no hope from any inclinableness in the parties to be perswaded Jew or Gentile as being utter enemies the one to the mention of the name of Jesus of Nazereth the other to the mention of the Resurrection Either therefore they were very Idiots and stark fooles and why then were the wisest Jews so put to it by them to lay heads together and to assemble councel after councel or else they were wise enough and why then should any thinke they would attempt such a foolish thing without good ground and reason But suppose they had been so overseene as not to have considered these things at first yet would they not when the storme once begun to fall on them and the world rise up in armes against them seeing the impossibility every way of making their Legend their lying Legend take would they not then have desisted would not fair nor foul means have made one of them at least at last have bewrayed the whole busines but that all their life long in spite of what the world could do they should continue every one of them in most constant asseveration of the Resurrection certainly had they been nothing but deceivers it is not imaginable that the world could have a pack of such except they had been very incarnate Devils but their writings and much more their lives shewed them to have been rather incarnate Angels Again if they would have done this they should either have taken our Saviour for an impostor deceiving them of his promise that he promised them he would rise again the third day and so they should rather have hated him as an Impostor then preached him as Saviour or else should have taken him as the true Saviour indeed though yet deteined in the grave and so they would never have gone about to have preached him that was Truth by meere lyes and falshood they could not thinke that the true Saviour would thinke well of false Apostles and therefore it is too incredible they could it is more then too too incredible they would preach the Resurrection as Meere Deceivers Secondly Not as deceived with any fantasme or apparition Diabolicall For first They were sure the body was not in the sepulchre their own sense and the sense of all the Jews viewing the empty sepulchre confirmed them of that Secondly They were sure none had privately stollen the body away and laid it elsewhere because of the Watch that kept the sepulchre and because of the grave-cloaths left behind and the napkin that was upon his head wrapt up alone none would have carried away a dead Ghastly body and that so full of wounds and gored blood and Ghastly visaged for the Napkin of his head also was taken off none would have carried away a dead body in such