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More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…
More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
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II. As to your second pretended contradiction, First, Remember that it was none of the purpose of any of the Evangelists to say all that could be said, even of the sayings and doings of Christ himself; much less of any others: And therefore if that be said in one which is not said in another it is no wonder: And you must remember what Doctor Hammond hath noted of Luke, that Luk. 1. professing that he received his knowledge from others (though directed by the holy Ghost) he delivered the things themselves, ⟨p. 61⟩with less respect to the time and order, when every thing was said and done, than the other did observe, it being not his design to tell the time and order of each.
II. As to your second pretended contradiction, First, Remember that it was none of the purpose of any of the Evangelists to say all that could be said, even of the sayings and doings of Christ himself; much less of any others: And therefore if that be said in one which is not said in another it is no wonder: And you must remember what Doctor Hammond hath noted of Luke, that Luk. 1. professing that he received his knowledg from others (though directed by the holy Ghost) he delivered the things themselves, ⟨p. 61⟩with less respect to the time and order, when every thing was said and done, than the other did observe, it being not his design to tell the time and order of each.
These things premised, set them all together and you will find that, First, Mary Magdalen, Johanna, Maria Jacobi, and Salome, having bought spices and going to anoint the body of Jesus, said, [who will roll away the stone for us?] And when they came they found the stone rolled away by an Angel that sate upon it. Secondly, That Angel with another, speaks to the women, saying, Fear not; I know you seek Jesus that was Crucified; why seek ye the living among the dead; he is not here, he is risen, as he said, Come see the place where the Lord was laid, &c. Thirdly, Then the Women run and tell the Disciples, They have taken away the Lord and we know not where they have laid him. Fourthly, Peter and John run to the Sepulchre, and saw the clothes and returned. Fifthly Mary Magdalen being come back, stood weeping at the door of the Sepulchre, and looking