The Life of Faith. I27 of divine Power, in the many gifts, and wonders,and miracles which they wrought and manifelted. And thefe things teem a Pifer teftimony than the miracles of Christ himfelf. For Christs miracles were the deeds of one alone ; and his refur- reo4ion was witneffed but by twelve chofen witneffes, and about five hundred other perfons; and he converted with them but fortydaies, and that by times: But the miracles of the Difciples were wrought by many, and before many thoufands, at feveral times, and in many Countreys, and for many and many years together; and in the fight andhearing of many of the Churches : So that thefe firlt Churches had fight and hearing, to affure them ofthe divine miraculous at- religion of the truth of their teftimony, who told them of the doF rines, miracles, and refurreetion of Christ : And all this fromChrists folemn promife and gift, 3obn; a 4. r 2. Verily, ve- rily, I fay unto you, He that believeth on me, the work, that I do, ¡halt be do alfo ; mad greater works than their Ad he do, becaufeIgo to the Father. But if it be demanded, How did the next Chriflians ofthe fecund age, receive all this from the first Churches, who re- ceived it from the Apottles ? I anfwer, by the fame evidence, and with forme advantages. For a. They had the credible hu- mane tefitmony of all their Pattors, Neighbours, Parents, who told them but what they jaw and beard. 2. Theyhad a greater evidence of natural infallible certainty : For a. The do1rine was now delivered to them in the records of the ti- ered Scriptures, and fo lets liable to the mifreports of the ig- norant, forgetfulor erroneous, a. The reporters were now more numerous, and the miracles reported more numerous al- fo. 3. Theywere perlons now difperfed over much of the world, and could not potlibly agree together to deceive. 4. The deceit wouldnowhave been yet more cafily detected and abhorred. 3. But beQdes this, they had all() the fupernaturaltettinoonÿ of God : For the Apottles converts received the fame fpirit as they had themfelves : And though the miracles ofother per- tons were not fo numerous as thofe of the Apoftles ; yet the perlons were many thoufands more that wrought them : All this is afíferted in the Scripture it fell; as Gal. 3. 3, 4. r Cor,
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