A demonstration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and therein of the Christian religion.: Very usefull for the further satisfaction and confirmation of all good Christians; as likewise for the confutation and conviction of those that have a Jewish or atheisticall spirit in them. / Written by Richard Garbutt, Bachelour in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Sydney Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards preacher of the Gospel at Leeds in Yorshire [sic].

Christian Reader,

BEing desired to peruse this en∣suing Treatise concerning the Resurrection of Christ, and to ex∣presse my thoughts of it, though my testimony can adde nothing to the worth of it, and very little to its ac∣ceptance in the world, yet the excel∣lent contexture of Scripture, and reason, which I have found in it, re∣quires me not onely to approve it, but commend it. The subject treated on is that of highest concernment, the great pillar of our faith & hope, as the great Apostle argues 1 Cor. 15. and the ma∣ner of handling it is in good measure answerable to the weight, and worth of its subject. Some may possibly think that this great article of faith needs no Demonstration; And I have sometimes been of that conceipt, that some principles, were so cleare, they needed no confirming, and some opi∣nions so absurd, they needed no con∣futing; but I find my self deceived;

for in these dayes wherein our lot is fallen, there is no truth so cleare and fundamentall, but it meets with them that doubt it, and deny it; and no errour so ridiculous, and unreaso∣nable, but finds them that will em∣brace and maintaine it. Therefore I cannot but judge the publishing of this worke very seasonable, both for confirming the faith of believers (for faith despises not reason but makes much of it, so long as it keeps its place) and also for convincing of Atheists, and unbelievers, with whom it deals upon their own terms; viz: those of reason; and in this tot∣tering age declining so fast to Scepti∣cisme, and Atheisme, there is need of both. But I will not deteine the reader from the worke it selfe, which will best speake for it selfe, wishing every Christian a rationall and fi∣duciall knowledge of the truth, and an experimentall knowledge of Christs Resurrection.

EDW. BOWLES.