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_{ s F ” Cinap. s 6 all, 3. That they were Gone itn confirmation of the Doctrine to that purpoſe which. he Preached, which God would nor have confirmed by Miracles, had he not been ſent of God to work ſuch things, Thoſe chat think they were nor 4 certain and infallible Tettimony, ſay, 1.
That the Prophets and Apoſtles allo wrought Miracles. 2. That our Saviour tells biy Apoſtles, they ſhould do 8: eater works than he ha4 done, That the deing of them from his own Power, wes a thins could not be known 20 others ; fo couid be no Teitimony to them. Bus our Saviour did nor only Iimfelf zaiſe the Dead, catt out Devits, arid work other Miracles, but he gave others alſo a Power to & 'T, which argued an original Power in himſelf, and is more than we read of any Prophers or Apoltles, who, tho' they vronzht ſuca miraculous Operations, yer having not that Power originally 1, aud
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37 And the Father kimfelt which hath fenr me,* hath + x3 c. born witneſs of me x: Ye have neicher hearg kis Voice 17»
at any time, * nor ſeen his ſhape y.
x Not oniy in my Baptiſm, and at my Transfguration hy on am- dible Voice trom Heaven, bur by the Voice of his Prophets, by *** whom he ſpoke to your Fathers. » You have no knowledge of him, nor any acquaintance with him. Ir is expounded, v. 33. 7» have not hy Word abiding in you. For tho' indeed God appeared ro the Fews in no Shape or Similitude,yer they, (that is their Fore-fathers } had heard his Voice, Dext. 4+ 12. ſpeaking out of the midſt of the fire, verſe 33. God being an incorporeal Being, hath no fuch Or- gans of Speech as we have, by which we declare our Minds unto o- thers ; bur God had formed an audible Voice, by which he revcal- ed his Will unto the Fes ; ſoas it could only be ſaid of the Fes of that Generation and their Fore-fathers, from the rime of giving the Law, that they had not heard his Voice, for Exod. 20. 19. they then delired that Moſes mizhrt ſpeak to them, and that God would ſpeak no more immediately. Accordingly he did by te Prophets, ſpeak ro them, Heb. 1. 3. but they would not believe rhem ; nor nor when he ſpake to them by his Son, who knew his Wil,
38 And you have not his word abiding in you z, for whom he hath ſent, him ye believe not #.
7 Though they had heard the word of the Lord, their Fore fae thers by the Prophets, and in that Generation by Fohn the Baptisi ( rhe Meflenper ſent before Chriits Face ) and now by Chritt himfclf whoin the Father had ſent, yer the word of the Lord had no place in their Hearts, Ch. $, 37. 1t was unto them as a Tale told, they received the found of ir, but it was not graven in their Hearts. a And this appeared, becauſe as of themſelves, they had n9 intimacy of Communion with God to know his Mind ; fo when the Son was ſent out of the Boſom of the Father, to reveal God unto them, yer they would not receive him, ſo as to give any jteady fixed Affent to what he revealed, and to yield him any juſt and true Obedience.
39 * Search the Scriptures 6, tor in them ye think #Ifa 3. 2c.- ye have eternal life c, and * they are they which teſti- 2nd 34-1. fie of me 4. nn
b The words may be read either Tmperatizely (as our Tranſlation Ang _=_ readeth them ) or Indicatz»e/y? you do ſearch the Scriptures, thar j ;, | is, .of the Old Teſtament, for the Books of the New Teſtament were «nur. 18. not at thar time written 5 bur as they had the Books of the Old Te- , -_ 1g. ſtamenr, ſo they made uſe of them : Moſes was read in the Syna- x \;ke gogues every Sabbath-day ; and they, (the Phariſees eſpecially) were ,, very well verſed both in the Law and rhe Prophets. c They did ©,,,» agree, that the way of Salvation and Everlaſting-life was revealed un- , - ro them in the holy Scriptures ; nay, they did judge, that Eternal- * * life was to be obtained by their obſervatiag, of the Law. 4d- They ( faith our Saviour ) are my principal Teſtimony ; he doth nor on. ly fay they teſtifie, but they are they that te(tifie, No Writings bur thoſe reſtifie of me ; I principally appeal to them to give you an account of me.
49 And ye will not come to mee, that ys migh have lite f.
e You will ror own, embrace, and receive me as the true Mc/7ab and Saviour of the World, rho* that be the only means by which you can obtain Ffrhat Eternal life which you pretend to be ſecking after ; and rightly think that the Scripture alone can ſhew you the way ro. Thiele two Verſes teach us, 1. Thar the holy Sciriptures ae the only Writings which ſhew us the way to' Life-eternal. a. That not only the Scriptures of the New, bur alſo of the Old Teſtzmenr, are of uſe in order thereunto, tho' the OldTeſt:menc Scriprures ſhew us it more darkly, and thoſe of the New Teſtament ſhew it ro us more clearly. 3. That borh the one and rhe orher point us to Chrift, and to the receiving and embracing of him, as our Saviour 1f we would have Life: 4 Thar it is nor ſafficient for us to ſearch rhe Scriptures, to be verſed in, and acquainted with them, unlefs we 2:1 Obedience to them come to Chriſt.
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2 I depend not upon the ſingle Teſtimony of Men: Or, I fee: not, nor hunt after the Honour of men, nor regard not what they think or ſay of me.
42 But I know you, that ye have not the love ou God in you b. | :
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