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    then Mary Magdalene , who had followed them and remained at the tomb ,. Was favoured with the first sight of the risen Saviour . The details of the Apostle John respecting the first disclosure of the great event , are of singular interest and value $ and if there be any part of the Gospel history on which , more than others , the understanding , the affections , and the chastened

    imagination , may be exercised together , it is surely this - —It might be about a quarter before seven when Christ manifested himself to Mary Magdalene ; and soon after that , he appeared to those women , ( with ' the other Mary , ' ) who were going to tell the Angels' message to the disciples at Bethany . This second appearance , taking time and situation into account , we may place about seven or soon after , as the women were crossing the Mount of Olives . *

    —During the later part of the day , the Lord was seen by Simon , as well as by the disciples on the way to Emmaus ; and , lastly , by the Apostles , ( Thomas only being absent , ) who , as might be expected , assembled together after the joyful intelligence , and would probably assemble where they last ate the passover with their Master ; and thus closed the events of that glorious daythe birth-day of our ' lively hope' of * an inheritance incorruptible , undefiled , and that fadeth not away . ' 1 Pet . i . 3 , 4 . "

    On the first day of the following week , our Lord appeared again to the Apostles , when the before-incredulous Thomas was with them . Afterwards the Eleven went to Galilee ; and there Jesus shewed himself to several of , them near the Lake , at the time when he had that peculiarly interesting conversation with Peter which is recorded in the last chapter of St . John . Soon after , he met above five hundred of the brethren , on a mountain in the neighbourhood , and gave the Apostles instructions relative to their commission . They then again returned to Jerusalem , where ,

    probably , our Lord appeared to James alone ( 1 Cor . xv . 7 ) as he afterwards did to all the Apostles , directing them to remain at Jerusalem till they received the promise of the Father . After having , for forty days , given them various opportunities of becoming infallibly certain of the reality of his resurrection , and of listening to his instructions respecting the kingdom of God , and their own duties in promoting it , he led them out to that part of the Mount of Olives which adjoins Bethany ; and after giving them his final directions , while they . were beholding him , he was taken , from the earth and carried into heaven . They continued looking steadfastly towards

    heaven as he went up ; and if we try to realize the scene , we find every thing to fix the attention , and to give a cheering resting-place to the imagination . It might have been enough to know , from indubitable proofs , that the Son of Man really entered into his glory ; but it is delightful to the eye of faith to see him , in gentle majesty , ascending there . Angels might have accompanied him while mounting towards the throne of Jehovah : angels will attend him , when he sitteth on that throne to judge the world in

    righ-* <• These calculations merely refer to the movements of the women : as respects our Lord himself , al ) , on that day , bears the character of supernatural /*

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    C 60 On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narrative' 8 "*

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 660, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/8/