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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65700	A discourse, confirming the truth and certainty of the Christian faith from the extraordinary gifts and operations of the Holy Ghost vouchsafed to the apostles and primitive professors of that faith / by Daniel Whitby ...	Whitby, Daniel, 1638-1726.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1723; ESTC R39042	30,421	35

the Christian Faith for that by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that Expression we are to understand miraculous Powers may be concluded not only from the like Vse of the Word in this Epistle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Hebr. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Act. 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .4 Act. 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 Act. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 19 Act. 10. See 15. Rom. 19. 1 Cor. 2.4 2 Cor. 6.7 3 Gal. 5. 1 Thes 1.5 but also in many other Places of the New Testament 2. That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the World to come denotes the Times of the Messiah cannot be reasonably doubted by him who well considers that Christ himself according to the Translation 9 Esa 6. or Exposition of the Septuagint is stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Father of the future Age and that the Apostle writes to the Jews in whose Account there were two Ages the one before the other after the coming of our Saviour which they constantly stiled Holam Habba the future Age or the World to come 2 Heb. 5. as the Apostle intimates in that Expression For unto Angels hath he not put into Subjection the World to come that is whereas the World before Christ was chiefly governed by Angels the Almighty having divided the Nations 32 Deut. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Number of the Angels which were to preside over them 17 Eccl. 17. saith the Septuagint and Set of them a Ruler over every People saith the Son of Syrach according to the constant Doctrine of the Jews embraced also generally by the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Just M. Apol. P. 44. vid. Athenag ●g pro Christian P. 27. c. Clem. Recogn l. 4. c. 4.2 Euseb Demonst Evang. l. 4. Antient Fathers the World to come or Christian State is not thus put in Subjection to them but to one far exceeding the Angels even the only begotten Son of God A Discourse tending to evince the Truth of Christian Faith from the extraordinary Gifts and Operations of the Holy Ghost by which it was at first confirmed WHosoever well considers the admirable Perfection of the Christian Faith how far the Doctrines and Precepts of it do excell all other Doctrines and Precepts which either in pretence or truly have been revealed to the World will find sufficient Reason to believe that such an excellent Dispensation took it's rise from the most excellent of Beings For it is 1. A Revelation which represents God to us such in all Respects as Men of Wisdom and Discretion would desire to be their Governor viz. a God of infinite Power to protect of infinite Wisdom to direct us and of the greatest Goodness Love and Compassion to design and to promote our Happiness and Welfare 2. It prescribes such Laws as every wise Man would chuse to live by they being Holy Just and Good 7 Rom. 12. 12. Rom. 1. and Obedience they require being our reasonable Service that is such Service as our own Reason cannot but approve of as fit and proper to be done 3. It is a Dispensation which propounds such Arguments to perswade us to yield Obedience to these Laws as no Man who regardeth his own Interest and truly loves himself can resist they being the most admirable Blessings promised to the Obedient and the most direful and lasting Evils threatned to the Disobedient 4. It is a Revelation which affords us good Assurance of the most powerful Assistance to perform this Duty even the Aids of Divine Grace Now that such a Revelation hath in it the true Characters of a Divine Religion that it contains a Doctrine worthy of God and therefore worthy of all Acceptation and cannot reasonably be thought a politick Contrivance of the Wit of Man much less the Product of wicked and deluding Spirits will appear evident to any who hath Ability and Opportunity to compare it with all pretended Doctrines and Religions which either the Wit of Man or Craft of Satan had before brought into the World Let any Person who thinks otherwise produce any Religion which doth so naturally tend to render Men truly devout and pious towards God Chast and Temperate Patient and Contented under all Conditions more Just and Honest Kind and Peaceable and Fruitful in good Offices towards all Men and which affords more solid Comforts and Supports under the Miseries of human Life let him produce one Book besides the Holy Scriptures composed before they were written which gives us such a clear and true Idea of the Attributes and Works of God prescribeth a more rational Service of him hath Rules of Life more equal in themselves more beneficial to Mankind which doth more fully tend to make Men better in all Respects Relations and Conditions and which doth offer more powerful Enducements to perswade them to be so and then he may have reason to prefer what he hath thus produced before the Pandects of the Christian Faith but if no other Book can vie with the New Testament no other Religion can compare with that which is contained in it then must we either say with Epicurus that God is not concerned to be obeyed and worshipby the Sons of Men or with the Infidel discard all Revelations of his Will as false or grant that this above all others deserves to be embraced as the must true and perfect Revelation of the Will of God But this Argument hath by much better Pens been handled and improved into so clear a Demonstration of the Truth of Christian Faith that nothing but the disagreeing Lives of Christians which generally fall so exceeding short of what this perfect Rule prescribes or run so counter to it could make Men to suspect the shining Evidence of it I therefore have chosen to insist upon another Argument arising from the Extraordinary Gifts and Distributions of the Holy Ghost by which this Doctrine was at first confirmed in which I hope to make some small addition to the Performances of others and which I shall endeavor to confirm by proving the ensuing Propositions I. That the Gifts and powerful Operations of the Holy Ghost were most assuredly vouchsafed to propagate and confirm the Christian Faith II. That the Assistance of the Holy Ghost vouchsafed to our Lords Apostles and to the Primitive Professors of the Christian Faith are a most full and ample Confirmation of it and a convincing Evidence that it is derived from the God of Truth Now that the Gifts and powerful Operations of the Holy Ghost were thus engaged to confirm and propagate the Christian Faith will be apparent 1. From the Assurance which the Baptist gave 44 Isa 3. 36 Ez. 27. 2 Joel 28. both to the Jews in general and to the Pharisees and Sadducees in particular that the Messiah would suddenly baptize those who believed in him with the Holy Ghost 3 Mat. 7.11 2. From a like Promise which our Saviour made to his Disciples that he would