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Script
ures?'ereinditedby
codi
j7irát.
ranee
ofGods truth,
and the
«
icked
conuinced. But
againrl
this,Satan
will
be readie
to
fuggef},
that
there
were neuer
a-
ny
fuch
miracles
as
are
recorded
in
the Scriptures.To
which.'
atuí;i
ere,
that
there miracles «'Ere
not
done
in a
corner, òr
in
hugger mugger,
but
in
the prerence.of great
.tnultitudes; o-
therwife
the
Prophets and
Apofiles
\N'ho
were
but
meane
and fimple,fhould haue laboured
in
vaine
to
haue perfwaded
men,to
haue
embraced
their
doLtrine and
religion(efpecial-
ly
being
fo
contrarie
to
humane wifedome, and
our naturali
difpefition
and
affeions)
if
they
had onely
themfelues
re-
ported
,
or
brought
force
few
witnefhes
of
their
miracles
wruught,and
not
publikely
filmed
them
to
all
the
people.
Moreouer,
feeing
this
dotrine
hath had
fo
many
enemies
from the
beginning,
it
is
not
probable
but that
they would
haue exclamed,
and
written
agaìna
thewritings
of
thePro-
phets and
Apoi
}lcs, as
foone
as
they
were
publifhed,for
R
ri-
tingfuch things
as
were
neuer done
:but amongf,alithofe
who
haue
oppofed
themfelues
againf}
the Scriptures,there
is
no
man
fo
impuda
as
to
denie
that
fuch
miracles were
done,
of
which
fo
many were
eye-witneffes
:
nay
contrariwife
the
Heathen
thentfelues,w
ho neither knew
Gcfnor
his
true
re-
ligion,haue
made Mention
of
them
in
their writings;andthe
Iewes who
to
this
day
withfiand the worke
of
redemption
wrought
by Chrill,doe
notwithf}anding
confeffe
that
fuch
miracles
were
wrought by
Chrirl.and
his
Apof}les;
neither
in truth
are
they able to
gainfay
them,
fecing
they
haue
re-
teiued
this
truth
by
tradition from'theirfathers
:and
therfore
they
are dritten
to
confcffe,
that
thrift
was
a
great
Prophet,
though
not the
promifed
Meflîas.
(5.Sec?,$.
Seuenthly,'the
conf}ant
teflimonie
of
innumerable
'Mar-
The reueoth
tyrs,who
haue
fealed
this
truth with
their
dearer}
blood,
is
a
reajon,taken
notable
,argument
to
affure
vs
that it
is
indeede
the word
of
.from
the
Wit-
God
for
it
is
not
likely
that
fo
many would
fo
conflantly
trnreof
Nlar.
and
cheerefetlly
haue
fuffered
for
their
profeflion,the molt
p
cxquifte
torments that
wit
and
malice
could.inuent,
if
the
fpirit
ofGod
had
not
certainly
affured
them
that
it
was
the
truth
of
God,
and
ifit
had nor fupported them in
fuffering
thefe,torments
aboue
all
humane power and..frengrh.
And
whereas