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ESTABLISHED.
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ercising these
powers,
nor
could
he
deceive others
by
pretending
to them,
-nor
could
he
appeal
to
men who
enjoyed
them,
if
he
had
not
received
them and bestowed
them.
,
He appeals,
in his
public
'epistles
to
the Corin-
thians and Romans,
two
large
assemblies in two
noted
cities
;
Rom.
xv. 18.
Cor. xii.
11.
These letters
were
to
be
read
by
the chtirches, and they published
his
vin-
dication.
And
let
it
be
observed
too,
that
several among
the
Corinthians
were
his
professed
adversaries, and
had
set themselves up against
him,
and endeavoured
to
deny
his
apostleship..
1
Cor.:
ix.
1,
2.
If
I
be
not
an apostle
to
others
I
am
unto
you;
for
ye
are
the
seal,
or proof,
of
my
apostleship,-
by
receiving
divine gifts from
me.
4.
-Upon
closer
examination
of
the
bible,
St.
Paul
found,
.that
Christ's rising
from the
dead
was
agreeable
to the
revelations,
that God
had made to mankind in
former
ages,
agreeable
to
the prophecies
of
the
prophets
his predecessors,
and
particularly agreeable
to the expli-
cations of
those
scriptures
by
his
forefathers, and the
pre-
mises
contained
in
his
own native religion,
and
in
the
books which teach it
;
Acts
xiii 30
-37.
and eminently
in
that
great
type
and figure
of
him,
Jonah
the'
prophet,'
who
lived
again
after
he
had lain
three
days
and nights in
the
belly
of the
whale, in
the
heart of
the sea
;
Mat.
xii.
39,
46.
Which
was
fulfilled in
the
resurrection of
Christ.
5.
By
'conferring
with
others
of
his own
nation, and
his own
religion,
who
were
well
acquainted
with
Jesus.
Christ
in his life
-time,
he
found the
same
truth
confirm-
ed
by
them
;
for they had seen
Jesus
Christ,
and eat and
drank
with him
after
he
had rose from
the:
dead
:.
So
Peter
and
James,
as
Gal.
i.
18,
19.
And they
con -
firmed the
same
doctrine
by
their
testimony
to
him,
and
by gifts
and miracles,
as well as
by
their
ewn
personal
-knowledge.
.
6.
Ile
saw
the
blessed
and amazing
effects
of
the
resurrection
of
Christ
among the Gentiles, who were
once
grossly
ignorant idolaters,
devoted
to
gross
super-
stitions,
slaves
to every lust,
and
given
up
to all
abomi-
nations;
as they
'are
described. Rom.
i.
18,.&c.
Gal.
iv.
8.
Eph.
iv.
1.7.
,1
Cor.
vi:,:J1.,
But
they were
changed
by
this gospel, and made
new
creatures.
Before
I
proceed any
further,
I
would
make
two
or
three Remarks.