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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 7 › Chapter 1 › Section 6: Of Christ's Apparition to his ten Disciples.
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3. For the persons to whom he appeared, they were his Disciples; they that were shut up in a conclave, not daring to step out of doors for fear of the Jews, to them now Christ appeared. It is Christ's usual course to appear to them who are full of fears, and griefs, and most in dangers;1 when thou passest through the waters I will be with thee, and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee; yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil (saith David) for thou art with me. He was with Joseph in prison, with Jonah in the deep, with Daniel in the Lions den, with the three Children in the fiery furnace: Lo I see four men (said Nebuchadnezzar) walking in the midst of the fire, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. 2And thus he was with Paul when he stood before Nero, though all men forsake me, yet Christ the Lord stood by me, & strengthened me. And do not his apparitions th•• day speak thus much? when Mary was full of grief, then Christ appeared to her; when the two disciples travelling towards Emmaus, talked together of all those things which had happened, and w r• sad, then Christ appeared to them. And when all the Apostles were afraid of the Jews, 3and therefore shut the doors that none might enter, then Christ appeared to them, they were his Disciples, his sad, distracted, timorous Disciples, to whom Christ appeared.
3. For the persons to whom he appeared, they were his Disciples; they that were shut up in a conclave, not daring to step out of doors for fear of the Jews, to them now Christ appeared. It is Christ's usual course to appear to them who are full of fears, and griefs, and most in dangers;1 when thou passest through the wate•s I will be with thee, and through the Rivers they shall not overslow thee; yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil (saith David) for thou art with me. He was with Joseph in prison, with Jonas in the deep, with Daniel in the Lions den, with the three Children in the fiery furnace: Lo I see four men (said Nebuchadnezzar) walking in the midst of the fire, and the form of the fourth is lik the Son of God.