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A88656	The Resurrection rescued from the souldiers calumnies, in two sermons preached at St. Maries in Oxon. / By Robert Jones D.D.	Lushington, Thomas, 1590-1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3503; Thomason E1902_1; ESTC R202762	20,354	108

we were all knock'd down and at our Recovery Rabbi Malchus a follower of the High-priests company and our Captain was singled out by one of their side a Sayler he seemed who with his whinyard lopt off one of his ears and had the blow light right it would have cleft him down to the twist Nay they were all Bravers and their bloody mind was seen upon Judas Iscariot one of their own company who because he was our Blood-hound to sent their Master out they persecuted the poor wretch till they had paunch'd him for not far from their walk he was found hang'd with his guts about his heels And for their bloody pranks that way the place begins to bear the name of Aceldama the bloody field For the exploit of his resurrection they had the assistance of their fellow she-disciples night house-wives too for they were hovering about the Sepulchre from the dead of the night till the morning and were as the Counter-watch to give notice of some advantage to the Disciples who lay not far off some where above ground while their master was under it All the day-time they stir not for fear of Passengers frequenting to and fro in the gardens and walks about Mount Calvary it being both Sabbath and Passeover but in the night they took their opportunity by this means We had been extreamly over-travell'd both to apprehend and guard him first to the High-priest next to the President from him to Herod and back again then to his arraignment then to his Execution and ever since at his grave so turbulent the man was that his very dead body would not lye still and be quiet This over-watching seconded with the darkness of the night and coldnesse of the ayre cast us into a heavy sleep thereupon the women give the watch-word to the Disciples who immediately do exhumate his body and while they translate and bury it elsewhere the women trot into the Town and bruit it abroad that their Master is risen And the credulous City is partly inclined to believe the Legerdemain they are willing to frame their faith and build their salvation upon a flying gull raised by three way-going women gadling Gossips that came from Galilee One of them notorious so divellish that there came seven divells out of her how many staid behind God knows it is like she was so full there was room for no more and by her ye may guess at her companions Consider of it the matter is of moment a main point of State that concerns your own Nation We are but strangers and no farther interessed then for the truths sake to speak it and therefore be advised whether ye will rely herein upon the word of a woman or upon the faith and reputation of a Souldier And here the Souldier puts up he sheaths his malicious and blasphemous tongue more sharp and deadly then his sword and gives our Saviour a wound more mortal far then those upon the Cross they did but put him in a trance suspend his life for a day or two at the most but kill his Humanity but this would murther his Divinity and dead his Immortality it would nullifie the Gospel and frustrate all our Faith for If Christ be not risen saith S. Paul then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain And therefore I come to my second Cursory For his Disciples stole him away by night Herein we will deal Christianly and civilly not give the lye to the Souldiers foul words to the Watch But yet we may say that their tale hath no truth in any point of it but a meer saying Saying say ye They say not of themselves but as the Priests taught them they knew they said false and therefore our saying to the contrary will easily obtain And therein we follow not the Random of their roving but take the sum of their saying as it is here set down by the Holy Ghost giving it order and parts The words then may easily be taken Judiciarily in form of an accusation and then Morally they are Calumny the Souldiers either not heard or not practised the doctrine of John Baptist Accuse no man falsely Or they may be taken popularly in form of a report or rumour and then morally they are a meer gull or slander In what sense soever there are three parties wronged in them The Disciples our Saviour and the Souldiers themselves The Disciples here are tax'd of theft that they should come by night and steal away their Master Our Saviour of Impotency and Imposture that he neither could nor did rise from the dead but was conveyed away by his Disciples And the Souldiers of capital negligence that they were asleep In the Cursory then for the Disciples may ye please that I lay down three plain Contradictories ro the words of the Text as they lie in order First the Disciples came not hither by night Secondy he was not stole away Thirdly the Souldiers were not asleep For proof of each whereof there are no cogent demonstrations in nature Quòd sint single voluntary actions that leave no evident effect admit it not We preach not before Jews and Infidels to whom this doctrine is scandalous and fool shness but the simple-hearted Christian the willing hearer shall have rationall probabilities and perswasive arguments sufficient to convey belief into a heart illuminated and prepared by grace for it For the first then His Disciples came not by night The body moves not voluntarily unless the motion be grounded upon the Will so that when the influence of the Will upon the external members is either intercepted or frustrated by any forreign accident the body hardly admits of going and comming The heart and first mover of the Disciples was now mated and set up by a Lease of impetuous passions All those Violents of the Soul which have mischiefs for their Objects and are immediately distractive to the Patient that endures them as sorrow fear and despair did now wholly possess them Extreme sorrow for their Masters present sufferings as much fear for their own future danger and their like despaire for their fore hoped happinesse Their senses seel the sorrow their fear torments their fancies and their memory maintains their despair their whole soul so assaulted that there wanted nothing but a Fever to make them quite frantick And Peter came neer to that so distracted that for his Masters sake first he will needs fight then he flyes away anon again he follows after him at length he forswears him and in the end goes out and cries In this mode he is carried up and down till he layes a clog on his conscience that would hold him work enough without coming to Mount Calvary The case of his other fellows might be as bad or worse although the Scripture be therein silent Thus far they go all with Peter that they sleep and flye and follow after off But when their Master was past all recovery then each passion plaid his part to hinder

THE RESURRECTION Rescued from the Souldiers Calumnies In Two SERMONS Preached at St. Maries in oxon BY ROBERT JONES D.D. LONDON Printed for Richard Lownds at the White Lion in Pauls Church-yard neer the little North-door 1658. The Stationer to the Reader IT being the constant Custom to usher all sorts of Books into the World with a Preface I thought good to give this short Account of the two following Sermons Their Authour Dr. Robert Jones a man sufficiently eminent for his extraordinary parts was appointed to preach a Resurrection-Sermon on Easter-day in St. Maries Church in Oxford which be performed with very great applause and satisfaction Yet having delivered something in the Repetition-Sermon which did not please the nicer Palates of some of his Auditors he was oblig'd by the Principalls of the Vniversity to make a Recantation-Sermon which how ingeniously he performed I leave the intelligent Reader after a serious perusall to judge and censure Farewell R. L. THE REPETITION SERMON MAT. 28.13 His Disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept WHat 's the best News abroad So we must begin 'T is the Garb les novelles the grand salute and common Preface to all our talk And the news goes not as things are in themselves but as mensfancies are fashioned as some lust to report and others to believe The same relation shall goe for true or false according to the key wherein mens minds are tuned but chiefly as they stand diverse in Religion so they feign and affect different News By their News ye may know their Religion and by their Religion fore-know their News This week the Spanish Match goes forward and Bethleem Gabors Troups are broken and the next week Bethleem Gabors Troups goe forward and the Spanish Match is broken The Catholique is of the Spanish match and the Protestant of restoring the Palatinate and each party think that the safety of the Church and success of religion depends upon the event of one or other and therefore they cross and counter-tell each others news Titius came from London yesterday and he sayes that the new Chappel at St. James is quite finished Caius came thence but this morning and then there was no such thing on building False news follows true at the heels and oftentimes outstrips it Thus goes the Chronicle-news the talke of the factius and pragmatick but the Christian news the talke of the faithful is spent in Euangelio in hearing and telling some good news of their Saviour and now all the talk is of his Resurrection The Christian current goes News from Mount Calvary the sixteenth day of Nisan in the year thirty four old style as the three holy Matrons deliver it at the eighth verse of this Chapter But since there are certain Souldiers arrived and they say there was no such matter as the Resurrection 't was but a gull put upon the world by his Disciples for it fares with spiritual news as with temporal it is variously and contrarily related till the false controls the true And as our modern News comes neither from the Court nor the Camp nor from the place where things are acted but is forged in Conventicles by Priests or in some Pauls Assembly or such like place and the divulge committed to some vigilant and watchful tongue So it is with the News of the Non-resurrection it came not from Mount Calvary but the Priests are the Authors of it at the eleventh verse and at the twelveth they frame and mould it to the mouth of the Watch. The Divulgers men of double credit they know the truth for they are of the Watch and they will not lye for they are Souldiers nay they will maintain it for they are Knights Milites Knights of the Post they are hired to say saying and they did say His Disciples came by night and stole him away whilst we slept The words so plain they need no opening May it please you that I make three Cursories over them One for the Souldiers another for the Disciples and the third for our Saviour In the two former we will beat the point pro and con and in the latter reconcile it for that 's the fashion also No error so absurd but finds a Patron nor Truth so sound but meets with an Adversary nor point controverted but the opposite tenent may be reconciled be they distant as Heaven and Hell as incompatible as Jew and Christian yet they shall meet with a Moderator and a cogging distinction shall state the question on the absurder side First then for the Souldiers whose Cursory hath no parts that 's not the Souldiers manner but yet is sprinkled with absurdities that 's the manner of the Watch. They speak partly as they fight voluntarily and partly as they watch supinely And thus they begin their talk Ye men and people of Judah and Jerusalem This Jesus of Nazareth was a very Jugler a neat Compiler of Impostures pretended title to the crown of Judah made himself the Messias and the Son of God brought such strange opinions as would turn the whole world out of bias having no proof from sense or reason for his Novelties he would needs confirm them by miracles and in the worlds eye he seemed to do wonders though his works were indeed but meer delusions wrought by slight of hand hocus pocus All which was so manifestly discovered that to stop the current of such false coin my Lord President was forced to nail him to the Crosse for a Counterfeit His Master-trick was that of the Resurrection whereof he forespake in his life-time for he was no ordinary dealer but would make his Cunning to survive his person and durst fore-say so To put this piece in Execution he entertained a rabble of Ruffians whom he termed his Disciples as all Plotters have Partners These he instructed in the game while he lived and they were to play it when he was dead The list of his Disciples consisted of Men and Women for in all crafty carriages there lyes a Womans part The men were to perform all manner of fact and the women whose activity lies in their tongue were to report the miracle The High-priests and some of the Sanedrim being wise to apprehend and wary to prevent the dangerous consequences hereof procured a warrant from the President to seal up the Tomb and place a Watch there and we were the parties appointed to guard it The Charge we underwent required good service for his Disciples were common Night-walkers like their Master notable Cutters and carried as much courage as cunning such tall fellows with their weapons that they made it but a sleight either to withstand or assault a whole multitude and durst do any thing in their Masters behalf The other night when we apprehended him in Gethsemane we were most of the lustiest fellows in Jerusalem and pretty well appointed yet they stood to it stoutly made a tall fray and sometimes put us to the worst At the first On-set