The Cup of Bleffing. 481 hee loth nothing in vaine,hee never wrought miracles BERM. i. when they might be (pared, where the thing might be done without a miracle. Since this might be done without a miracle , all that we have by Chrift, all that is reprefented in the Sacrament,what needfity is theree And if there be no neceffity , it befeemes not the wife - dome of G o D to doe it : Ag,aine would not the fmalieft miracle, really and vifibly expofed to fenfe, helpe more than filch a miracle as this : Betides all this , I fay , it is not poffible ( make your owne fenfes Iudges ) you fee nothing but bread ; now this is a fure rule, that of all demonftrations of reafon that wee 3 have to prove things , nothing is fo firme as that Agintt which is taken from fence : To prove the fire is hot, SGIlfe. wee fede it hot, or honey to bee fvveete, when wee tall it tobeefweete : There is no reafon to the world makes it fo firme as fenfe : As it is true in there cafes, fo it is an undoubted Truth in Divinity , that in all matters of fenfe , fenfe is a competent Iudge : Indeed, if it bee a matter of reafon there fenfe is not able to judge, the eye is able to judge of his owne fenfe , of founds it cannot judge ; but, I fay , objeEts pro- per to fenfe , peculiar to fenfe, in there fenfe is a competent ludge. And therefore Chrift himfelfe, in this very bufinefFe , when bee would prove that bee had a true body , hee fends them to their fenfes, pit bath not fleflr and bones its you fie mee have : And Thomas hee bids , Put thy hand into my fide and feele , &c. Hee fends them to their fenfes : Locke tho- row the Scriptures, and fee if there bee one miracle there , if Cenfe be not a competent judge according to that part of the miracle that concerns the fence; would
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