788 Book.lV.Part+ Looking unto j-e{us. Chap.z. Sed. 5 we ttre witnefes. In the next Sermon after this, be it known toyon all (faid Peter) and to 111! the pnple of lfrael, th,zt by the nt~meoj Je[MJ (hrifl of1X.!}Z.Plrfth, whom ye crucijiedr .tvd whom Cjod raiftl>. +rom the dead,-is this rnan whole. And in the next Sermon after ACI:.4.to, J' d ·+ h d J·r: h this,theGoo 3 ourFat ersraife up e 1vu,w omyejlewandhangea on a tree. And as thus he prea~;hed to the Jcwes, fo in this firfl: Ad.; ·3°·• Sermon to the Gentiles, he tells them, we are witnejfes of all things which [efm did, both in the land ofthe Jewes, and in {erufalem, whom they flew, and banged on a tree; him God raifed up the third ACI: .1o 39'·-4°· J4y, and {hewed him openly. And as thus Peter preached, fo in that firfl: Sermon of Paul at Antioch, he tells them of the Jewes crucifying Jefus, and then it f<?llows, but God r11ijed him from the de.~ d. -And M C071cerning that he rf!i[ed him HP from the dead, Alt.J3.~0·• now no more to retnrne to corruption, be faed O?J tht! wife, 1 will give you the Jure mercies ofDavid, a~d thonfoa!t n.ot JH/fer thine holy one :Vcr.l·H 5• tafee corrupthn. And after thts,Pau/, as hts manner was, went into the Synagogue at Thrjfa!onica, and three Sabbath dayes reafoned.with them out Of the Scriptures, opening and alledging th.. a (fri{f mnft needs fuffer and rife from the dead. This was the Ait.J7. : ,3• way of the Apoftles preaching; they told them an hiftory ( I fpeakit with reverence) ofone [efus Chrift, tb.tt WM the Word of God, and rhizt w.u become man, .and bow he was crucified ar Jerufa- -/e.m, and how he WM raifed from the drad; and all tbis in a plaine firnple fpiritual way and manner; and while they were telling thofe bleffed truths, the Spirit fell upon the people, and they beleeved, and had faith wrought in them. Faith· is not wrought fo much in II TPII) of ratiocination, M by thr Spirit ofGod, coming npon the fouls ofpeople b; the relation or reprefentation of {efm Chrij to the foul. And this our Lord hirnfelfe hints, M U'no[es lifted up ,the (erpmt in the wilatrnejfe, even fo m11ft the Son of mo~n be lifted Job+ 14. up, that who[oevrr belee<Hth in him foould not perifo, but have ever- /afling life. When the people were frung, God fo ordered, that the very beholding of the brazen ferpent !hould bring help (though we know not how) to tbofe that were wounded and ftung by thofefiery ferpents; fo God hath ordained in his bleffed wifdorne that the difcovery of Jefus Chrift, as crucified and raifed, as humbled and exalted, £hould be ameanes offaith; come then; fet we before us,Chrift: raifed; not only Chrift crucified, but Chrift raifed is the object offaith; and in t.h~trefpeCI: we muft kok,.up to Jefm. 6. Faith
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