The possibility, expediency, and necessity. (1st sermon at mr. Boyle's lect., 1695).

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Página 5 - ... firft began to be fpoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him ; God alfo bearing them witnefs, both with figns and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghoft, according to his own will...
Página 8 - REVELATION, that is, a discovery afforded by God to man of Himself or of His will, over and above what He has made known by the light of nature, or reason.
Página 4 - D, who at fundry times, and in divers manners fpake in time paft unto the fathers by the prophets, § hath in thefe laft days fpoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom alfo he made the worlds.
Página 19 - Reafbn why God infpired Abel, and Enoch, and Noah, to preferve thofe Principles alive. And if, when there was a Revelation feconded by the Authority of fuch eminent Perfons, the World fo foon grew...
Página 9 - Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellow ship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world bath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ...
Página 11 - If one Man can difcover his Mind to another, it is certain the Creator may reveal his Will to Men. 2. If fuch Things be declared, which none but God could reveal, as Prophecies ; and fuch Things done, which none but God, in Man, could do, "viz. Miracles, it is evident there is fuch a Thing as Revelation. 3. If this be queftioned, it muft be from this ; either that God cannot impart fuch a Revelation to Man \ or Man is incapable to receive it. But as God made the Soul of Man, he muft have Power to...
Página 24 - Principle to direct them, than the Light of Nature ? 3. There was no Nation without a Revelation, that is, without fome Pretence to it. The Ufe I make of all this is to fhew, what a Senfe Mankind had of a Revelation, and what all the World has thought expedient, if not neceflary ; which was the Thing to be proved. II. I proceed now to prove the Certainty of Revelation. Under which I (hall fhew, I.
Página 8 - Under the fourth, I fhall fhew the Perfection of the Gofpel Revelation, and that there fhall not be any other. I. I am to begin -with Revelation.
Página 7 - Order to prove that the Scriptures of the Old and New Teftament contain the Matter of divine Revelation, and have upon them the Characters belonging to it.
Página 12 - ... Thing as Revelation. 3. If this be queftioned, it muft be from this; either that God cannot impart fuch a Revelation to Man ', or Man is incapable to receive it. But as God made the Soul of Man, he muft have Power to operate upon it as he pleafes. And there can be no Incapacity in Man ; when as to the Matter, he can both receive it, and deliver it as received ; and as to the Manner, it's in a Way fuitable to his Faculties, which is fo as the other may underftand.

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