4 t6 Book. IV ~ Looking UJ~to ;_fefus. Cb:tp. 2. Sect. 4 ----------. vn·.~6. , attelted by fo great a miracle , what award isth!:s? or as the Matkc r, ! 7 • ocher Evangelift, what a thing is thio .< wh.1t nov da£fnne is this_< fi1rely thiswa~ the great defigne of all the miracles ofcbrid to prove hismiilion from God, to demonftrate his power unto . I men, to confirme his Gofpel, to endeare his precepts, to work1 in us faith, to help us heaven-ward: theft flgnes are written tf1~~t John 10. 3\. we might belcew, -and thfit belm:ing we might ha;e life through • Vfe. hun:zmc. _I have given you fever a~ ~nftances of the miracles of Chrill in thJs fecond yeare of hts muufrry; only a few words on this dothine ofmiracles for our information, as r. What they are ? 2. Why-they are ? 3. Wheche~ they are chained and co~tinued in this great tranfacbon of our fouls falvatwn ? and I h'ave done. For the firfr, what they are ? miracles are unufual events wrought above the courfe or poilibility ofnature; fuch were chi: miracles ofChrift, and fuch were the miracles ofthe Prophets and of the Apd!Hes of ~hrift ; for what they did was abov~ nature ; and all the difference betwixt their miracles, and the· miraclesofChrift·was only in this, viz.: they wrought them not in their own name and power as Jefus"Chrift did; Thus when Elijha with twenty loaves and fome full eares ofcorne fed an . hundreth men, give unte the people (fa~es he) that thq may rat, l. Kings 14. and his fervitor f.lid, >what fhoula 1 fot thu before <1n hsmdred men? .p, 43· he[aid againe, give the pe&ple that they may eat, for thm faith the · Lord, they jhall eAt tmdfhallleave thereof. And when Peter cured v£nw, which had kept his bed eight years, and was fick of a palGe,Peter [aid umo him v£neas, 'fejUI ACI:· ?• H· Chrifi mak}th thee whole. And when he cured that man that , was lame from his mothers womb, whom they laid daily at the A.a. 6 e~ate of the Temple, fllver and IT old have 1 none (faid Peter) b~tt ~·· 3· • b 6 [uch M I have give I thee, in the -:l{_ame of • refP-4 Chrift of N aM- ' ruh, rife up; and walks ; but our Savtour comes in an higher ..,. k fl:raine to the deaddamfel, Ifayuntothee, arifo : andinan mar ef•41 · • h 11 • d dr. d'· · , , higher flrame to_ t e,uormy ~m san_ ~eas,eeacnm oe Hill: and Marke 4 ;9 • in an higher il:rame to the ragmg devtl m the poffeffed, be mufled Luke .t.'H• Mid come out o( the max. Here's the difference betwixt the Lord and '
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