Chap.5 .Secr.2 Looking NtJto :feftu. BooK. IV· 477 -- 7. Confider the miracles of Chrift in purfuauce of che doctrines delivered in his bleffed Sermons. Hc:rt's a world ofmtttter to run over; fuch miracles were don.e by Chri!l: as never man did before. ckfo[es indeed [mote the rock, and the waters gullied out ,bm he could not rurnc that water into wine·, E lifh>< ra1fed a child that wa; dead, to life, but Jefus raifed one who bad been dead fonre dayes, yea who was buried and corrupted : Eli"u and Samuel , and all the Prophets, and the. fucceffion of the high Pri'dts in both the Temples, put all together, never did fo many, and fo great miracles as Jefus d1d: he turned wat·_.r into wine ; . he healed the Noble-mans fonne even at the point of death; he cured the le prom by his touch ; he mad.-:: the lame man to walk; and the crooked limms to become ftreight, he made habitual dif, afes, and inveterate,of eighteen yea res continuance (and once of thirty eight years) to difappeare at hi§ fpeaking, even as darl>- neffe at the brighrnelfeof the Sun; he fed thoufands of people ·with two fmall fifhes, and five loaves; he call: out devils·, and 'commanded then, whither foever he p!eafed ; he rcftored Gght to the blind; in a word he did fuch miracles as no man elfe ever did ; and the poore blind man proved it by inll:ance of himfelfe. It wM r.~ever heard that any m11n opened the eyes ofom th.<t was borne J~hn 9. 13. blind. 0 my foul confider of thefe miracles, and bele.::ve that doCtrine which was ratified with arguments from above ! how 1houldfl: thou but alfent to all thofe myll:erious truths which were fo ftrong!y confirmed by an almighty hand? --what? dofl: thou think a meditation needle!fe in this refpc:Ct? art thou fully fatisfied of the truth of Scriptures ? it is well; I hope thou art ; and yet who knows how foon thou mayft be put to it by an enemy, or a {hong ternptation? one can tell us in print, . fome are now talb,jng of a tollerMion of aft religions; and fome dejire that the [ewes may have a free commerce amongft us : it is go0d therefore to be well armed at th is poynt; and the bell: argument to-prove the verity of the Gofpel, next to the inward rell:imony of the Spi::it, is chis demon!l:ration, or common place of the miracles of Chrift. 8. Confider Chrifts ordination of his Apofiles. He cho(e twelve,whom he named Ap,ftles :· And what was the office of Lake 6,q, thcfe Apoft!es, but to go and teach all nations? The Gofpel was Matt h. ~s. 19; fidi preached in Jewry, but afterwards the found of it ·came unto p p P. 3 us•.
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