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For David, after he had served his own Generation by the Will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his Fathers, and saw Corruption.
THE Argument which the Apostle Paul is here insisting upon, is the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, a Fundamental Article of the Christian Religion, a Point of special Note in the Gospel.
The Apostle Peter in his Sermon, when so many were converted, Acts 2. 23, to ver. 37. he also preached of the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is said here in this 13th Chap. ver. 29. that when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the Tree and laid him in a Sepulchre. You have a particular Account of it in the Evangelists * 1.1, how Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus, who were before faint-hearted Disciples in comparison of the Apo∣stles, were fill'd with a holy Courage, and took care of burying the Body of Jesus. The Lord can animate weak Believers in a time of Danger, to venture upon great Service. The Apostle Peter, and the rest, they were fearful and fled; but the Spirit of God came upon Joseph, but secretly for fear of the Jews, and Nicodemus who first came to Jesus by Night: and now they were bold in the Lord, to ex∣pose and hazard themselves to lay Christ in the Sepulchre. Let not those that are Strong, despise the Weak; your Hearts may fail you in a perilous Time, and timorous weak Professors may be as bold as Lions in the Cause of God, through the Influences and Sup∣plies of the Spirit.
It follows; But God raised him from the Dead, ver. 30. and he was seen many Days of them that came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are Witnesses to the People. And we declare unto you glad Tidings, how that the Promise made unto the Fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their Children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again.
By the way observe; That we are to believe that Jesus died for our Sins; that he was buried, laid in the Sepulchre, and that he rose again the third Day: But for that Expression, He descended in∣to