to C011 ittg 419ail tinting :1, ofhim, and made his Commiflion aatthentick. Before Cças his coming the handof the Synagogue was dried up,and tea, impotent to produce Miracles. The Holy Spirit was withdrawn, and for the fpace offour hundred years, no Prophet nor Worker of Wondersappeared. ohn the .Baptiff,though the Angel deputed to fignifie the coming ofChrift,yet didno Miracles. But our Saviour was in- veiled with Power from above, and performed many. Their quality and number is confiderable. z. They weie not meer Signs, as the converuon of MofesRod into aSerpent ; nor deflru6ive and punifh- ing, as the Wonders in Egypt ; but advantageous and beneficial tomen, the equal demonftrations of his Mer- cy and Power. He cured Difeafes that were abfoìute- ly defperate without means, by hisomnipotent Will, as theSon ofthe Nobleman who was lickat Capernaum, Jot, when Himfelfwas at Cana in Galilee: or by Lich vifible means, that the Speetators might be fully convinced, that it was not the external application, but his foie Vertue and Divine Power that produced the effe&. Thus by anointing with Clay and Spittle the Eyes of him that was born blind, who never had any natural poflibility of feeing, he wrought an unparalleld Cure : It was neveryet heard, that any manopened theeyes ofone John thatwas born blind. Therefore he that was healed, in- ferred from that, as amof} pregnant proof, that our Sa- viour wasfromGod. He raifed the dead. This effet exceeds the power not only of Men, but ofthe Angels. 'Tis-true, That one Angel deftroyed in a night an hun- dred fourfcoreandfive thoufandofthe AffyrianArmy ; but 'tis as true, that all the Angels together cannot raife from the dead one Man. 'Tis wholly the work ofthe Lord of Nature, who holds the Keys of Life and Death in his hands. 'Tis only his Light can difpel the darknefs, his Voice can break the filence of the E e e Grave
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