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INWARD WITNESS TO
CHRISTIANITY.
[SRAM.
1.
commission,
and
to the divinity
of
his
doctrine. Every
blind
eye
that
he
opened,
saw
and
witnessed
Jesus, and
declared
his
divine power.
Every
one
of
the dead
that
he raised
were his witnesses.
They
came from
the land
of
silence to
speak
his
glory,
and
to give
a loud testi-
mony to
his
mission from heaven..
The
devils themselves,`
when
he
drove them
out
of their
possessions, confessed
that
he was
Christ
The holy
one
of
God;
but
he
had
no
mind
to
accept their
witness,
and therefore
forbad
them
to
speak. Miracles
attended..him
to the cross and
the
grave, and
opened
the grave again for
hire,
and
made
a
passage
for him
to
his
Father's right-hand.
Nor
did
the
witnesses
of
his
person
and
of
his
doctrine then
cease
;
for
that
salvation
which
began
to
be
spoken
by
Jesus
the
Lord,
was
afterwards published
by
those
that
heard
him,
God
himself bearing
them
witness
with signs
and
won-
ders ;
as in
Heb.
ii.
3,
4.
But
all
these
still were
outward
witnesses to convince
an unbelieving
world.
There
is
an inward
witness
that
my
text
speaks
of,
that
belongs to every
true
christian
:
He
that
believeth
on
the
Son
of
God,
kath
the witness
in
himself
And
let
us
prepare
now to
examine whether
our
religion
be
true, and whether
we
are
believers on
the
Son
of God
in
truth,
by
searching
after
this inward
.
witness;
which
we
shall
endeavour
to
explain,
by
con-
sidering
these
three
things
:
I. What
believing on
the
Son
of God
means.
II.
What
this
inward
witness
is,
that
faith
gives
to,
christianity.
III.
What sort
of
witness
it
is,
and
how
it
exceeds
other testimonies
in
several
respects.
And,
.
Lastly,
We
shall make
some.
inferences.
I. What
is
meant
in
my
text
by
believing on
the
Son
of
God,
I
answer
briefly
under
these
two heads.
It
is,
1.
A
believing
Jesus Christ
to be the Saviour
of
the world.
2.
A
trust
in
Christ Jesus
as
our
Saviour.
1.
It
is
a
believing
Jesus
Christ
to
be
the
Saviour
of
the
world;
and
in
this
manner it
is
often
expressed
by
our
apostle
in
these epistles
:
a belief that Jesus Christ
is
the Messiah,
who
was
foretold
by
all
the prophets,
and.
represented
by all
the types
and
shadows
of
the old
testament. This usually includes a belief
of
the
most
important
things
that
are
related
in
the
gospel concern
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