60 And laid it in and laid him in a

JOHN.

CHAP. XIX. with the fpices,

as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

41 Now in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new fepulchre : *There therefore, becaufe of the Jews preparation-day, for the fepulchre was nigh at hand, and laid it in a 42

hewn in ftone,

his own new tomb, fepulchre which was fepulchre which was Jefus, *
which he had hewn hewn out of a rock,
out in the rock:

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laid they

wherein never wherein was never man‹ man before was laid. yet laid.

up in a clean fheet, with the Spices and Ointments that Nicodemus had prepar'd, they carried it to the Sepulchre which Jofeph had caus'd to be hewn out of a Rock, and in which no Corps yet had bin depofited, in a Garden adjoining to Mount. Calvary: for Friday being almoft ended, they had not time to remove it farther by reafon of the approaching Festival. Fofeph having taken care to have the Entrance into the Sepulchre clos'd with a great Stone, return'd into the City..

CHAP..

Some religious Women prepare Ointments to embalm the Body of Jefus. The chief among the Jews obtain a Guard of Roman Soldiers to fecure the Sepulchre, which they feal up. On the Sunday early in the Morning the Women go to the Sepulchre, from whence they find the Stone removed. They are inform'd by Angels that Jefus is restored to Life, and risen again, with which they are commanded to acquaint his Apostles, who give no credit to it. Peter and John repair to the Sepulchre, which they find empty. Mary Magdalene fees two Angels again in the Tomb, and afterwards Jefus himself, with which The a quaints the Apostles, who do not regard her.

THERE were prefent at the interment of the Corps of Jefus, Mary Magda

lene, and the Mother of Jofes, and other Women who followed fefus out of Gailee, who in the mean time fat oppofite to the Sepulchre, that they might fee in what place, and after what manner they buried him. Of which having taken exact notice, they return'd in all hafte to Jerufalem, and bought Spices and Ointments wherewith to embalm his Body after the Sabbath fhould be ended, which they kept exactly according to the Letter of the Law.

Upon the Sabbath Lay the Chief of the Jewish Nation came to Pilat, telling him,

they

MATTHEW.

CHA P. XXVII. 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver faid, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rife again.

64 Command therefore that the fepulchre be made fure until the third day, left his difciples come by night, and steal him away, and fay unto the people, He is rifen from the dead: fo the laft error fhall be worse than the first.

65 Pilate faid unto them, Ye have a watch, go your way, make it as fure as you can.

66 So they went and made the fepulchre fure, fealing the stone, and setting a watch.

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CHAP. XXVIII.

end the

MARK.

CHAP. XVI.

Nd when the fab.

Abath was paft,*

2 And in 1

upon I

'HE first day

Nabbath of it the morning, the first N firft day of the The freeder of

began to dawn towards day of the week,
the first day of the
week, came

week, very early in when it was yet dark, the morning,

they remembred how that Impoftor (fo they term'd fefus) who was crucified the day before, boafted while he was alive, that he fhould rife again to Life within 3 days. They therefore befought Pilat, that he would command the Sepulchre to be guarded during that time, left his Difciples should steal away his Body, and that laft Error be of more dangerous confequence than the former, viz. that he was a Prophet truly fent from God. Pilat replied, that they had a Cohort who kept Guard in the Porches of the Temple, and that they might take from them what number of Soldiers they pleas'd. The Jews having obtain'd what they requefted, repair'd to the Tomb with fome Soldiers, whom they placed about it, and feal'd up the Stone that lay at the entrance, charging them to have a watchful Eye over it till the end of the third day.

Upon Sunday, the 28th of April, early in the Morning, before the Sun was up, and about fix and thirty hours after Chrift's Body had bin laid in the Sepulchre,

Mary

Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mother of James, and Salome, and the other Women, taking the Spices and Ointments with them, which they bought (as we related) on Friday to imbalm the Body of Jefus, came to the Monument juft about the time of Sun-rifing. As they were going, they ask'd one another how they fhould get the Stone removed, which they faw roll'd against the Entrance into the

Cave.

Mean while arofe a fudden guft of Wind; Heaven, remov'd the Stone, and fat upon it. in which he was wrap'd, being revived, arofe,

Women finding the paffage free, went into the Sepulchre, but found not the Body, and faw only a young Man in white raiment fitting on the right fide of the Sepulchre. At their return therefore out of it, while they were wondring at what had happened, and not knowing to what Place they might have remov'd the Corps, two Men appear'd to them in white Apparel, who indeed were Angels, the one of which we faid) remov'd the Stone, and fat upon it, and the other was in the Cave, at the fight of whom the Watchmen were fo terrified, that they look'd rather as if they had bin dead, than living. Nor were the Women a little aftonifh'd at the Apparition. But one of the Angels thus accofted them: Fear not, I know you feek Jefus of Nazareth, who was crucified, and buried in this Tomb; He is no longer here, but is rifen to life again, as he himself foretold: Examine this Sepulchre as diligently as you please, but be mindful you do not feek for the

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