house it seems) and preached every where; the 'Lord working with them, and confirming the word with figus following. Amen.' Having finished the hiftories given by Matthew and Mark, we will now take up where we LUKE. xxiv. 33 left, and finish that given by Luke. And they Chapter Verfe (the two difciples at Emmaus) rofe up the fame ⚫ hour, and returned to Jerufalem and found the • eleven gathered together. (John fays Thomas was not with them. He certainly knew, and in that cafe there were but ten) and them that were with them, (women, I fuppose) saying, the Lord is rifen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. (Why not, to us?) And they told what things were done (or rather faid) in the 6 way, and how he was known of them in break ing of bread. And as they thus fpake, Jefus • himself flood in the midst of them, and faith unto them; Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and fuppofed that they had feen a fpirit. (The natural confequence of his appearing in this fupernatural way: John tells us that the doors were fout; for fear of the Jews.) And he faid unto them, Why are ye troubled, and why do thoughts arife in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and fee; for a fpirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye fee me have; and when he had thus fpoken, he fhewed them his hands and his feet. And while they yet ⚫ believed 6 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 χχίν. 42 Chapter Verfe believed not for joy, and wondered, he faid unto ' them; have ye here any meat? and they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb, and he took it, and did eat before them. 43 44 (Neither Matthew nor Mark mention these cir'cumstances; and John relates them in a very 'different way.) And he faid unto them, These are the words which I fpake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be ful'filled which were written in the law of Mofes, and in the prophets, and in the Pfalms con45 cerning me. Then opened he their under'ftanding, that they might understand the fcrip 46 47 6 tures, and faid unto them; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Chrift to fuffer, and to rife from the dead the third day; and that repentance, and remiffion of fins should be preach⚫ed in his name among all nations, beginning at 48 Jerufalem. And ye are witneffes of these things, And behold I fend the promise of my Father upon you but tarry ye in the city of Jerufalem until ye be endued with power from on high. 49 50 51 (This fpeech; that in Matthew, and that in Mark, differ from each other. Mark and Luke feem to agree as to the place where it was made-a houfe in Jerufalem: but Matthew fays it was in a mountain in Galilee.) And he led 'them out as far as Bethany: and he lift up his hands, and bleffed them. And it came to pass while he bleffed them, he was parted from them, • and and carried up into Heaven. (He doth not Chapter Verse fay, with Mark-and fat on the right hand of God) And they worshipped him, and returned xxiv. 52 to Jerufalem with great joy; and were continually in the temple, praifing, and bleffig God. 'Amen.'. Thus ends St. Luke's gofpel: and we learn from three of the evangelifts, that this had been a very bufy day. The refurrection: appearance of angels: his own appearance at different times and places his different converfations with, and inftructions given to, different people are all comprised within it, and fo is even his afcenfion, according to the accounts given by Mark and Luke in their gofpels. The latter, in his hiftory of the Acts of the Apoftles, tells us, that forty days elapfed from the refurrection to the afcenfion. John records more appearances than either of them; the second of which (to the difciples) he fays, was eight days after the firft: as he records no afcenfion, in courfe no time is afcertained. We will now take up his gospel where we left it*. Jesus-near the fepulchre, and after Peter and John had left it-appeared to Mary Magdalene: fhe, thinking it had been the gardener, converfed with him as fuch: at length, difcovering her mistake, fhe (I suppose) advanced to fahute him. Upon which he said to her- Touch xx. • Page 193. 53 JOHN. Chapter Verfe 37 me Chap. Verfe. me not; for I am not yet afcended to my Father, God. and your Father; and to my God, and your Mary Magdalene came and told the difciples that fhe had feen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.' This converfa tion, and this meffage, differ exceedingly from thofe recorded by Matthew, viz. And as they (the two Mary's) went to tell his difciples, (that they, at the fepulchre, had seen an angel; who told them, that Jefus was rifen; and di⚫rected them fo to inform his difciples; that he • would go before them into Galilee; and that 'they fhould fee him there) behold Jefus met 'them faying, All hail: and they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him: then faith Jefus unto them, be not afraid; go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there fhall they fee me.' Agreeable to this, Matthew fends the eleven to a mountain in Galilee where he fays Jefus had appointed them. Mark fays, that Jefus appeared first to Mary Magdalene; that the informed his difciples fhe had feen him alive, and that they would not believe her: but he fays not a word of the fpeech or meffage. Luke's record does not inform us that Jefus appeared to Mary, the two Mary's, or the women, at all. John proceeds- Then the fame day at evening, being the first day of the week, (the day of the refurrection) when the doors were fhut where the difciples were affembled (in Jeru ¶ falem 'falem Luke fays plainly) for fear of the Jews, Chapter Verse came Jefus, and stood in the midft, and faith " unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he xx. that 20 21 22 23 |