66 What are no Signs PART IL have an Account of this, in the Multitude that were prefent when Chrift preached and wroughtMiracles ; Mark 2. 12. And immediately he arofe, took up his Bed, and went forth before them all : Infomaach that they were all amazed, and glorified God, Paying, We never faw it on this Fafhion ! So Matth. g. 8. and Luke 5. 26. Alfo Matth. 15. 3r. Info'much that the Multitude wondred, when they faw the Dumb to (peak, and the Maimed to be whole, the Lame to walk, and the Blind to fee and they glorified the God of Ifrael. So we are told, that on Occafion of Chrift's raifng the Son of the Widow of Nain, Luke 7. 16. There carne a great Fear on all ; and they glorified God, faying, that a greatPro- -phet is rifen up among us, and that God bath vifited his People. So we read of their glorifying Chrift, or fpeaking exceeding highly of him, Luke 4. 15. Andhe taught in theirSynagogués, being glorified of all.And how did they praife him with loud Voices, crying, Hofanna to the Son of David, Hofanna in the Highfl. Bleed is he that cornett) in the Name of the Lord, a little before he was crucifi:d ! And after Chrift's Af- cenfion, when the Apofiles had heal'd the impotent Man, we are told, that all Min glorified Godfor that which was done, A6ts 4. 21. When the Gentiles in Antioch of Pi/dia, heard from Paul and Barnabas, that God would reject the yezus, and take the Gentiles to he his People in their Room, they were affeaed with this Goodnefs of God to theGen- tiles, and glorified the Word of the Lord: But all that-did fo were not true Believers ; but only a certain die&Number of them ; as is inti- mated in the Account we have of it, A6ts 13. 48. And when theGen- tiles heard this, they wereglad, andglorified the Word of the Lord ; and as many as were ordained to eternal Life, believed. So of Old, theChil- dren of Ifrael at the Red Sea, fang God's Prafe ; but f on forgot his Works. And the yews in Ezekiel's Time, with their Mouth (hewed much Love, while their Heart went after. their Covetoufnefs. And 'tis foretold of falle Profeffors, and real Enemies of Religion, that they fhould Phew a Forwardnefs to glorify God ; Ifai. 66. 5. Rear ye the Wordof the Lord, ye that tremble at his Word : Your Brethren that hated 'su, that call you out for my Name's Sake, Paid, Let the Lord be glorified. 'Tis no certain Sign that a Perfon is gracioufly affe6ted, if in the m.idf ofhis Hopes and Comforts, he is greatly affected with God's Unmerited Mercy to him that is fo unworthy, and feems greatly to extol and magnify free Grace. Thofe that yet remain with unmor- ti ied Pride and Enmity againtt God, nay, when they imagine that hey have received extraordinary Kindnefs fromGod, cry out oftheir Unworthinefs, and magnify God's undeferved Goodnefs to them, from no otherconvi6t.ion of thsirlll- defervinas,8t from no higher Prin- ciple, than Saurl,had,who while he yet remained with unfubdued Pride and Enmity arainft David, was bro't, tho' a King, to acknowledge his Unworthinefs, and cry out, I have played the Fool, I have erred ex- -reedingly, and With great Afe6tion and Admiration, to magnify and extol
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