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A Reply to Two Deistical Works, Entitled 'the New Trial of the Witnesses',
A Reply to Two Deistical Works Entitled 'the New Trial of the Witnesses' Author:John Jones General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: Printed for R. Hunter Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where y... more »ou can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. The proofs of the resurrection and ascension of Christ stated. -- The objections of the author of the New Trial Sfc. set aside. A HE resurrection and ascension of Christ being highly incredible in themselves, Jesus, if they were true, must have provided facts that rendered them convincing, first to those who were witnesses of them, and afterwards to all such as might bring them to the test of inquiry in distant ages and countries. Objections, he knew, would at all times be urged against them by the honest inquirer after truth, as well as by the cold uncandid sceptic; and the wisdom of heaven suggested to him the wisest means to meet or remove them. It would have been a consideration of great weight on the side of scepticism, if our Lord had been taken, tried, and put to death by surprise and against his will. But in order to render his sufferings, his death and resurrection credible at all times and all places, our Lord, as having distinctly foreseen, minutely foretold them to his astonished disciples ; manifesting by that means that he was inspired by the wisdom of God ; and that he was actuated by no interested and sinister motive, but that he came up to Jerusalem and surrendered himself to his enemies, in conformity to the will of his Almighty Father, and to his own fixed purpose. These predictions, it should further be observed, being in the early part of his ministry no more than indirect hints, he rendered more definite and intelligible, as the events to which they referred drew near. Being familiar to his thoughts, though yet in futurity, t...« less