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like the " fancy " in the preceding , is on the part of your correspondent , who , contrary to the declarations of the Evange ^ lists , asserts that Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalene , when jshe was accompanied by no other persons . Upon the harmony
of the Evangelists in their accounts of the resurrection , I hav § often conversed with Mr . Cappe ; and his views concerning the order of events by which the discovery of that important miracle to the disciples was attended , 1 have long since embraced as the most probable and consistent . If the limits of your publication will allow it , I will here briefly detail them .
Before suri-rise on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene and other women , intending to anoint the body of Jesus , set out , and ' about sun-rise arrived in sight of the sepulchre . As soon as Mavy Magdalene saw the sepulchre , she perceived that the stone was tolled away from the mouth of it , and from this inferred that the bodv wa& removed . After makinsr some
unsuccessful search for the body in the garden , Mary Magdalene , not quite alone perhaps , went , not to all the apostles , but to Peter and John , and told them that the sepulchre was o pen , and the body gone , she knew not whither , nor by what means . While Mary Magdalene was absent upon this errand , the rest of the women ventured to approach the sepulchre . The guards , of whom nrobablv thev had known nothinn * till
they saw them now , were in a manner petrified with amazement , and incapable either of motion or of speech . Perceiving their consternation , the women passed through them , and when they were come so far within the sepulchre as to be perfectly assured that Jesus was not there , and " were perplexed at
the event , two angels suddenly became visible to them , who informed them that Jesus was risen , and bade them go and tell his disciples and Peter , that he was going before them into Galilee , I 3 uring these things ^ Peter and John and Mary Magda- * lene were coming up to the sepulchre , and were met by the women , who had run thence in great trepidation ; but because
their errand particularly regarded Peter , they stopped and turned back . But to no one— -neither to John , nor to Peter , nor to Mary Magdalene , did they say any thing . The impressions of the vision were still so strong as to take away the power of utterance ; and they , besides , a $ it is probable , supposed that
tnesc would instantly see and hear what they themselves had seen and heard . It was not so , however ; for Petqx and John saw nothing but the grave clothes , and immediately botfi went away each to his own home . The women remained , and Mary Magdalene , stooping down to look into the sepulchre , beheld the jtwo angels that had been seen by the other women .
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Vindication of Mr . Cappe * * Discourses . 423
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/31/
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