418 Book IV. Lopking unto 7-efns. Chap.z.Sed,4 • 1 Tim. 3·16. dwell on the earth by mea11es of mir~tclet; thefe are the words of Juhr., Rev. I 3. I 4· but if any man hi!P./C an eare, let him heare (i. ) let him beware, Rev. 13. 9. true miracles that proceed from God, are wrought for the grounding of dothine at the fidl: fetling, but being once grounded, and fetled, and a plat- forme d&ribed for the right continuing of it, th.en we are left to the· Scripture,anJ are not ro ex.ped any new miracles for the confirming of it. ' For the third, whether ~hey are chained and continued in this gr~at tranfadion of_our foul~ falvation? I anfwer,yea; in this rdped miracles ceale not; IUS Without contraver!ie that Jefus Chrifl: in carrying on our fouls faivation is adding miracle to .miracle, there is a chaine of miraCles in the matter of our falvation from firfl: to lafl: : As --· r. It was a miracle that God in his eternity, beforewe had a being, fbould have one thought ofus; efpecially that tpe b!effed trinity fbould fit in.counfel, and contrive that mofl: admirable and afionifbing plot of the falvation ofour fouls; Oh what a miracle was this l ;z,. It was a miracle that God for our fakes lhould create the world, and after ou.r fall in !Adam, that God lhould preferve the world, efpecially confldering that O).lr finne had unpind the whole frame of the creation; and that God even then fitting on his throne of judgement, ready to paffe the doome of death for our firfi tranfgrdl.ion, fbould unexpectedly give a pr'omife ofa Saviour, when jufl:ly he might have given us to the devil, and to hell, according to his own law, in the day thllt thott eatrft thereof thou fhalt dye the de"uh• . 3. It was a miracle that Gods Son fuould take upon him our nature and that in our nature he fhould tranfad our peace . that ,he fbo~ld preach falvation to us all if we would beleeve; dnd to the end that we might beleeve, that he would work fo many fignes and miracles in the prefence of his difciples, and ofa world of men: was not Chrifis birth a miracle ? and Chrifis life amiracle? and Chrifis death a miracle? and Chrifts refurredion a miracle) and Chrifts afcenflon a miracle? was not Chrifl:s minifiry, amiracle!' and was it not a miracle, that Cbrifis vVord fuould not be credired without a world ofmiracles to back it, and confirme it to the fons of men ? wirhcut contraverjie grrat u the ' • w:iracte,
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