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SECT. IV. Of the Arguments of Christ's Resurrection.

Christ after his passion showed himself alive by many infallible proofs. ¹And so he had need to persuade men into the faith of so strange a truth; if we consult with antiquity, or novelty, with primitive times, or later times, never was matter carried on with more scruple, and slowness of belief, with more doubts and difficulties than was this truth of Christ's resurrection. Mary Magdalen saw it first, and reported it. But they believed her not, Mark 16.10. the two Disciples that went to Emmaus, they saw it also, and reported it, but they believed them not, Luke 24.37. divers women together saw him, and came and told the Disciples, but their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not, Luke 24.11. They all saw him, and even seeing him, Yet they believed not for joy, but wondered, Luke 24.41. When the wonder was over, and the rest told it but to one that happened to be absent, you know how peremptory he was, Not he, except he saw in his hands the print of the nails, and put his fingers into the print of the nails, and thrust his hands into his side, he would not believe, John 20.25.—In after-times the whole world stopped their ears at this report of the resurrection of Christ, it was with the Grecians at Athens a very scorn; When they heard of the Resurrection of the dead, some mocked, Acts 17.32. It was with Festus, the great Roman, [Greek or Hebrew], a sickness of the brain, a plain frenzy; Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art besides thy self, much learning doth make thee mad,