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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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III. Your third question is fully answered in the answer of the Former. According to the first Harmony or supposition, Matthew only mentioneth one of the Apparitions of the Angels, and one of Mary's goings to the Disciples. And so this written in Matthew, was partly before Mary's seeing Christ (viz. The Angels first appearance) and partly after (viz. her going the second time upon the second appearance of the Angels to tell them.)
III. Your third question is fully answered in the answer of the Former. According to the first Harmony or supposition, Matthew onely mentioneth one of the Apparitions of the Angels, and one of Maries goings to the Disciples. And so this written in Matthew, was partly before Maries seeing Christ (viz. The Angels first appearance) and partly after (viz. her going the second time upon the second appearance of the Angels to tell them.)
According to the second Harmony, Mary's speech to Christ was after the ⟨p. 65⟩Angels […] And now consider […] you deal reasonably with Christ and with your own soul, upon such poor cavils as these to argue against the Christian Faith, and plead for Apostasy? when the Gospel hath all the Divine attestations and evidences which I have opened in my Treatise, and you are not able to confute them? which leadeth me to my Third Proposition.
According to the second Harmony, Maries speech to Christ was after the ⟨p. 65⟩Angels 〈…〉 And now consider 〈…〉 you deal reasonably with Christ and with your own soul, upon such poor cavils as these to argue against the Christian Faith, and plead for Apostasie? when the Gospel hath all the Divine attestations and evidences which I have opened in my Treatise, and you are not able to confute them? which leadeth me to my Third Proposition.