384 poet oUo faith. Soul, which yet outweighs a World. The Be- liever may look upon his Holy Faith, Fear, Love, Joy, Hope and Patience,which make up the New- Creature s and fay, All thefe were created out of Nothing, and called into Being, when they were not : Here is dextra excelfi, The right hand of the moil High, the very fame which made , the World, and Ve[tigia Spiritîis Sanai, The footfleps of that Holy Spirit which of old moved on the Face of the Waters : Now I know, That God is a Creator indeed, and have a praaical proof of it in my own Heart; every part of the New-creature bearing witnefs thereunto. As to the Miracles of Chrifl related in the Gofpel, thefe were fo famous, That 7ofephus mentions them ; Celfus end Ju- lian in their Writings againft Chriftians duríl Gror. de not deny them, The Jews in their Talmudical Ver.Relig. Books, nay, and the Mahometans in their ¿11 de Came- choran,confefs them : And the Heathens moved to Verbo with envy at them, caufed the life of Apolloni- 44r. Perr. usThyan.eus and his lying Miracles, to be de- Gal. de fcribed in meer oppotïtion to Chrifl and his Arranis true ones. when John Pent his Difciples on 447' that errand, Art thou he that fhould come ?' that is, the Mechas : Chrit returns this anfwer, Go and tell john, the blind receive their fight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleanfed, the deaf hear, and the dead are railed up : As much as to fay,In fuch wonders as thefe is my Glory manifefled. For the right underflanding of thefe we muff note; Chrift did not come only or chiefly to cure the Bodies of Men, no, thofe,Miracles, which
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