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A44932	The spirit of prophecy a treatise to prove, by the wayes formerly in use among the Jews, in the tryal of pretenders to a prophetic spirit, that Christ and his Apostles were prophets : together with the divine authority of christian religion and the Holy Scriptures, the insufficiency of human reason, and the reasonableness of the christian faith, hope, and practice, deduced therefrom, and asserted against Mr. Hobbs, and the Treatise of Hvmane Reason / by W.H.	Hughes, William, b. 1624 or 5.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3346; ESTC R19799	183,906	298

as convincing as the sight of our own Eyes Chap. V. The strength and force of the preceding Arguments 1 They remove all suspition that Christ and his Apostles were not Prophets for thereby it appears 1 that they pretended to the Spirit of Prophecy 2 that they therein were not deceived 3 they had no design to deceive others 2 they give positive evidence that they were Prophets 1 from their Fortitude 2 from their Wisdom 3 from their Predictions 4 from their Miracles here to shew the force of this Argument it is observed 1 that Christ and his Apostles wrought their Miracles on purpose to confirm their Doctrine 2 Miracles were alwayes look●d on as demonstrative proofs of Divine Authority in them that did them 3 the Reasons for which the Miracles of Christ and his Apostles deserve to be so accounted 1 from their Nature 2 from their Number 3 from their Greatness 4 from their Goodness thereby they conferred on men 1 the goods of Fortune 2 of the Body 3 of the Soul Chap. VI. Some use that may be made of this Doctrine Of the Divine Authority of Christian Religion Sect. 1 This deduced therefrom the Leviathan denies it the first reason of this opinion answered the second reason answered The Divine Authority of Holy Scripture Sect. 2 Uncontrouled Tradition proves that the Books of the N. Testament were written by those men whose Names they bear and since they were Prophets the Old Testament also must needs be the word of Prophecy a Doubt about the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke and the Acts these Books had the approbation of the Apostles an Objection out of the Leviathan Object 2. Object 3. The Insufficiency of Humane Reason Sect. 3 The Treatise thereof ascribes as much thereunto as Pelagius did to free will it evacuates the necessity of our Saviours and his Apostles Prophetick Office the impiety of it Reason it self condemns it an Objection out of that Treatise The Reasonableness of the Christian Faith Sect. 4 The certainty of the word of Prophecy greater than that of a Voice from Heaven the Mysteries of Christianity do not make it incredible but are apt to strengthen our Faith The Reasonableness of Christian Hope Sect. 5 The nature of the Promises an Objection drawn from Experience another from the supposed impossibility of a General Resurrection The Reasonableness of Obedience Sect. 6 All acknowledge an obligation to obey God whence doth this obligation arise 1 not from our weakness 2 not from Gods sole irresistable Power the nature of Divine Sovereignty Gods right of it a view of our state by Nature the way that God hath chosen for our Redemption Christ conquered the Devil at all those weapons whereby he overcame our first Parents and their Posterity we are therefore his by right of Conquest Christ made satisfaction for us Christ now in Heaven is able to succour us when we are tempted a Question another Question the nature of an Obligation which is two-fold the Redemption of Christ obligeth us by both to keep his Commandments 1 by that of Authority 2 by that ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Nature of it the Reasons of it 1 the benefit we receive by Redemption 2 the satisfactoriness of it to our Reason 3 the incomparable incouragement that it gives us to keep the Commandments the Conclusion REV. 19. 10. The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy CHAP. I. THat We have a power of Assenting is so manifest as that Scepticism it self cannot doubt it for that it is very apparently built on Assent to this Proposition There is nothing certain Who can be of that Perswasion without Assent It seems therefore certain that the Mind assents and this it doth to Testimony as well as Reason for the latter cannot be at least improved without the former because there is no Reasoning without Words and Words without Testimony signifie nothing Were it not for Testimony the wisest of Words and the most inarticulate of Sounds would be to us equally significant so that not only Religion but also all Arts and Sciences are beholding to Testimony they are if not founded on it yet unattainable without it It seems therefore those who ●raduce our Religion as fond Credulity because it depends on Testimony are therein very disingenuously Partial and irrational especially considering The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Proph●cy Which Words are an intire Proposition not so difficult but that it may be understood nor yet so plain but that both the Subject and the Predicate will need some Explication In order whereunto it will not be amiss to observe that in all probability the Testimony of Jesus is either that which he himself gave or else that which his Witnesses did bear of him of the former St. John speaks in his Gospel of the latter in his Revelations here in my Text which to me seems evident by the Scope and Design of the whole Verse the drift whereof is to prove that the Angel whose words they are to St. John was Fellow-servant with him and the rest of the Apostles St. John fell at the Angel's feet to Worship him but the Angel said unto him See thou do it not of which Prohibition he gives this reason because saith he I am thy fellow-servant and of thy Brethren that have the testimony of Jesus And who were they that had the testimony of Jesus Surely they were those whom Jesus himself had chosen to be his Witnesses viz. the Apostles Of these men then the Angel was Fellow-servant to prove that he was so he alledgeth my Text For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy Which words can be no way Argumentative unless the Testimony of Jesus be understood to signifie not that which Jesus himself gave but that which his Apostles did give of him but being thus taken they import a two-fold Argument viz. ad hominem and ad rem St. John we know was as all the other Apostles a Jew by birth one of that Nation wherein it was a received opinion that there were ten degrees or Orders of Angels the lowest whereof were called Ischim by the Intervention and Ministry of this sort of Angels they say whether truly or falsly I affirm not that Prophecies were communicated unto Men. These Angels as we are told were chiefly employed to Prophesie and when the Spirit of Prophecy rested on any here on Earth his Soul was ●ixt with and advanced to this Order of Angels in Heaven and was enrolled among them If then this were a Vulgar opinion of the Jews at the time of St. John s Revelations it is apparent enough that my Text contains an Argument ad hominem But the truth is the force of the Angels Argument doth not lye so much in St. John's opinion as in his own employment at that time which was to prophesie concerning things pertaining to the Church of Christ as appears by the preceding Verses let 's then but cast the

from Advice or Counsel consists in Obligation for the Latter doth only direct to the doing of what is thought fit to be done but the Former doth moreover oblige and bind them to whom it is given to the doing of it thus also doth the Gospel and that very severely to them to whom it is Preached for the Author and Finisher of our Faith in it viz. Christ Jesus our Lord is He of whom Moses said unto the Fathers a Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me Him shall you ●ear in all things whatsoever He shall say unto you and it shall come to pass that every Soul which will not ●ear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people We ought therefore to give the more earnest heed to the things that we have heard l●●t at any time ●e should let them slip for if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and d●sobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Obliged then it seems we are by the Gospel much more severely than the Jews were by the Law because the Gospel first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers Miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own So that this its Obligation is primarily derived not from the Laws of Civil Soveraigns in favour of it but from the Lords speaking it its Authority therefore is Divine Sect. 2. So also is that of the Holy Scriptures That those Books of the New Testament which bear the Apostles Names did drop from their pens we have as great assurance as any can be given of a matter of that Nature Affirmative Demonstration that Homer wrote the Poems Plato or A●istotle Cicero or Plutarch the Books that are Extant under their Names is impossible uncontrolled Tradition is all the Proof whereof this matter is capable and this we have in behalf of those Books that bear the Apostles Names as fully as of any other whatsoever The Sceptical Hereticks in Tertulli●ns time who it seems made a Question of it he therefore thus bespeaks Go to now thou that wouldest exercise thy Curiosity in matters of thy Salvation betake thy self to the Apostolick Churches where thou mayest find the very Chairs of the Apostles yet abiding in their proper places wherein also their very Authentick Epistles as it were Sounding each ones voice and representing his face are still recited If Achaia be nighest thee thou hast Corinth if Macedonia be not far from the thou hast the Philippian and Thessalonians If thou canst go into Asia there thou hast Ephesus But if thou art neer Italy thou hast Rome From these and other Apo●●olical Churches Copies of the Apostles writings were undoubtedly dispersed among the Primitive Christians who received and delivered them as theirs and this their Tradition hath run throughout all Ages down to ours and that without any contradiction for those that either in the Primitive or Latter times have thought fit to oppose Christianity yet did it not under the pretence that these Books were Spurious neither ●ews nor Heathens ever had the confidence to make that objection but rather they have yeilded their suffrages to the Testimony of the Church that they were written by the Apostles it is true indeed that some few particular and private persons have both of late and heretofore either out of their Error rejected or out of their Curiosity more than befitted them debated the Canonical Authority of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews the Epistle of St. James the second Epistle of St. Peter the second and third of St. John the Epistle of St. Jude and the Apocalyps beside some other lesser parts of the Gospel yet can it never be shewed that any entire Church nor that any National or Provincial Council nor that any multitude of men in their Confessions or Catechisms or other such publick writings have rejected them or made any doubt at all of them so that the Scruples that some few have raised about them should no more weaken the Credit of such an universal Tradition than the Opinion of Atheists overthrows the Faith of all the World besides for very evident it is that such Conjectures are at best but Negative probabilities against the Affirmative deposition of all the Christian World beside and forasmuch as Negatives especially in such competition prove n●thing were they imbraced by Ten Thousand times more than they are or ever were they would not amount to a Proof against and therefore ●ught not in Reason to derogate from the Credibility of the Churches Tradition that they were written by those Apostles concerning these therefore and those other Books of the New Testament which bear the Names of Apostles we have no Reason to doubt and that they wrote them in prosecution of their Apostolick Office the Books themselves declare And for this cause since the Apo●●les were Prophets concerning them it must be concluded that they are given by inspiration of God and if these be so then so also are the Books of the Old Testament because they are therein said expresly to be so and impossible it is for Scripture given by Divine Inspiration to testify a Falshood and indeed had not the Scriptures of the Old Testament been so expresly called the word of Prophecy and said to have been given by Inspiration of God as we find they are in the New yet because the Apos●les in their writings found their Disputations upon them and prove their Doctrines by them as the word and Truth of God from whence there lies no Appeal it would be very Evident that they ascribed Divine Authority to them and this their Testimony being given by the Spirit of Prophecy is beyond the reach of a Doubt about the Truth of it All the doubt therefore that can be raised will be about those Books of the New Testament which the Apostles themselves did not write viz. the Gospels of St. Mark and St. Luke together with His History of their Acts But for the removal hereof from all besides Scepticks it may methinks suffice that these Books also had the approbation of the Apos●les For the Gospels of these Evangelists do not only agree with the other two but they themselves after the death and Resurrection of our Blessed Saviour conversed with and adhered to the Apostles and forasmuch as they were eminent fellow-Labourers with the Apostles it is not to be doubted but they received the Holy Ghost perhaps at the day of Pent●cost as well as others After which time we know that the Apostles dispersed themselves into their respective Provinces and certain it is by all Antiquity that St. Mark did accompany St. Peter and St. Luke St. Paul in almost all his Travels it is therefore very unlikely that

can admit of no demonstration but that of the Spirit and this indeed is made à posteriori yet not from the constant and ordinary Phaenomena of Nature but from things Novel and Anomalous such as Predictions and Miracles purposely designed for that end and this is the way of proving the Gospel to be Divine far more decent and proper than any other because it becomes the Majesty of God and conciliates Authority to his Word by making our Faith to stand not in the Wisdom of men but on the Power of God Now to shew that this Demonstration was abundantly made by the Spirit in Christ and his Apostles is the great design of this Treatise which being written on an occasion of a Command laid on me by your Lordship was by me humbly offered to the Honour of your Lordships view and having attained thereunto your Lordship it seems was pleased to condescend so far as to read over as much as your Lordships time would give leave and then to return it with many thanks to me for my good pains as your Lordship was pleased to call them wisely placed on so worthy a Theme together with such other expressions of your Lordships Approbation as neither I did expect nor as I fear doth the Treatise D●serve But I submit to your Lordships Judgm●nt and had I not so done this Treatise had been buried in obscurity with its Author but having that encouragement I thought my self sufficiently armed against all elation or dejection of mind at the various censures that may possibly be passed upon it if it should come abroad because I neither know nor am like to m●et with any more able to judge of such matters or impartial in Judging than your Lordship Hereupon I gave my consent to its being made ●ublick and for its freer passage among men in this declining age of Christianity I am humbly bold to let the World know that your Lordship is thus far concerned therein and forasmuch as it contends for that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints which is at this day God be thanked most excellently established and most mercifully preserved in the Church of England whereof also your Lordship very deservedly is one of the Chief Ministers with all humble confidence I perswade my self that for so doing your Lordship will either not be offended at or will easily pardon Your Lordships very much obliged in all Duty and humble Observance W. H. TO THE READER IN this Treatise you will find Christ and his Apostles put together in one Proposition the meaning whereof is not either that our blessed Lord Jesus was no more nor no other than a Prophet or that the Humane Nature of Christ had no higher a degree than the Apostles had of immediate Illumination for being Hypostatically united to the Divine it is reasonable to believe it had such communications of Knowledge therefrom as are vouchsased to no other man whatever But the meaning is that the Eternal Son of God having graciously been pleased to take our Nature upon him made of a Woman made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law found it expedient in order to this end for him to execute the Office of a Prophet and to inspire his Apostles with the Spirit of Prophecy That so he did lies we know at the bottom of our Christian Faith whoever believes the Gospel to be of God doth in a sort suppose it and take it for granted for whatever Religion is Divine must needs be either Natural or Revealed if Revealed then the first Preachers of it were Prophets because Prophecy is the only way whereby revealed Truth either is or can be dispensed unto us for very evident it is that the Positive Truths of God besides or above what is Natural can no way be made known unto us but by a free influx of the Divine mind upon ours since therefore as all agree that though Christianity doth most highly befriend Natural Theology yet it self if it be of God is Revealed it must be concluded that Christ the Author of our Faith and his Apostles the first Preachers of it were Prophets Yet among the many good Books that have either heretofore or lately been written to prove the Truth of Christianity I have neither seen nor ever heard of any purposely written and directly designed to make good this Principle I could not but somewhat wonder at it and wish it were well done and this my desire did at length vent it self in a Sermon on the Text you find prefixed to this Treatise and this Sermon I resolved on an occasion given me by a Person of great Learning and Authority in the Church to transcribe and enlarge in that method which is there proposed and you will find here observed from this undertaking the slenderness of mine acquaintance with Oriental Language and Learning did a long time deterr me but considering that besides mine own satisfaction and diversion from less pleasing Imployments I wrote it only for his Lordships perusal who I knew had goodness enough to pardon my Defects as well as Learning to discover them I reassumed my former resolution and in order to the performance of it I looked more narrowly than formerly I had done into those Books which I had that were likely to acquaint me with the customs and methods of the Jews in the tryal of Prophets and by so doing have I hope found and pitched upon the principal Means and Methods observed by that People in that Affair and this way of procedure even before I had that Idea of it which you will find in this Treatise I did conjecture must needs be very rational because it was not only projected but practised and that as far as we find without controul for many Ages among God's peculiar People and that I was not mistaken in this Conjecture the fifth Chapter of this Treatise doth I hope make manifest by shewing the strength and force of the preceding Arguments to prove that Christ and his Apostles were Prophets Now if any man ask what degree of Prophecy it is which I ascribe unto them he may be pleased to know his curiosity exceeds mine yet for an answer I referr him to that Prophecy of Moses wherein he told the Jews that the Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Pro●het from the midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him shall you hearken This Prophecy I find by St. Peter applyed to our Blessed Saviour in particular and by St. Stephen to the Evangelical state in general and from thence perhaps we may gather not only that this Prediction did more especially pertain to the dayes of the Messias but also that it speaks not of one single Person only but of an Order of Prophets like unto Moses and therefore though it were most eminently fulfilled in Christ yet was it also accomplished in those that he sent as the Father had sent him viz. the Apostles Whether

out the Prince of that Power Who then but the obstinate for whose Cure God himself affords no Remedie can doubt whither their Power were the Power of God If the Prince of the Power of the Air be as Aquinas probably conjectures the Supreme of all the Angels that ever God Created it is manifest his Power is inferior to none in the whole Order of the created Nature however for ought I know it ever was and still is so accounted among all Jews and Christians except those if there be any that deny his being and as for the Heathens it is Apparent that they thought it Divine and inferior to none yet as we have already abundantly proved it was over matched and conquered by the Power of Christ and his Apostles what baslled and self condemned Wretches then must those needs be who will not own it to be the Power of God beside the Order of the whole Created Nature and if so then were their Miracles the Seals of Heaven to Ratifie their Mission from then● and so to prove that they were Prophets Their number also as well as their Nature speaks them Worthy to be so accounted for doubtless it did far exce●d that of those Wrought by Moses and the Prophets The Jews no doubt for the honour of Moses their Master and of their own approved Prophets were so Zealous as that they would rather enlarge than diminish the Number of their Miracles yet after their utmost diligences they could find but 76. for Moses their Master and but 74 for all the Rest of the Prophets and the Records they find so many in are not only unknown to us but also liable to suspition of Falshood for we cannot think them their Bible because the Number therein contained after the greatest improvement that we can make will fall very short of that Account that they give of it but suppose it doth not what are they to those of Christ and his Apostles could an exact account be taken of All that they did I dare say the Number of those wrought by Christ only would be found greater than that of Moses and all the Prophets put together For they were so many as that the Jews themselves as we have already observed made it a question whether Christ the Messias When he cometh would do more miracles than these which this man hath done Nothing but amazement at their extraordinary Multitude could Raise such a question among them Which Facilitates belief of St. Johns assertion there are also many other things which Jesus did besides those Recorded in the New Testament the which is they should be written every one I suppose that even the World it self could not contain the Books which should be written His supposition is an Hyperbole the plain meaning whereof I take to be that those Works of Christ whose memory the Apostle in this His History had committed to Writing were to be looked on as a small part of what Jesus did as that if a full account of them all should be exactly taken and described in Writing the World would be over-stock't and oppressed with Books on that Subject If then to the Miracles of Christ we add those of His Apostles we shall find Reason to conclude them almost innumerable for since their Sound went into all the Earth and They themselves into almost all the known Parts of the World Converting men by their Miracles to their Doctrine how can it be Imagined that they were but few in Number The Devil being then in possession Ruled without controle in the Children of Disobedience and the World was Then asleep yea dead in Trespasses and sins and think ye that a few Miracles would suffice to Cast out the one and to awake and raise the other it is much more Rational to think that they were many yea so exceeding many as to admit of no Comparison with those of others in point of Number and all these being done in one Generation for Christ and his Apostles were Contemporaries how strongly do they prove and how clearly do they Declare the Divine Authority of Them that did Them If Judaisine were Credible because in the space of above 3000 years Moses and the Prophets wrought 150 Miracles to confirm it how much more Credible is Christianity because fewer Persons in the space of less than an hundred years wrought incomparably more to Demonstrate the Truth of it If the Jews had Reason to believe that They were Prophets much more have we that Christ and his Apostles were so well as they Especially considering That the Greatness of their Miracles doth as justly claim our Assent thereunto as their Number It is true indeed all Miracles being Works of God besides the whole Order of the Created Nature in respect of His Power they are all equal yet in respect of the Power of Nature one may be greater because remoter from it or farther above it than another for as Aquinas well observes these Works of God viz. Miracles may Three ways exceed the Power of Nature either First in respect of the substance of the Fact wh●n it is above the Power of Nature by any means to do that which is done as that the Sun should go back or that a Mans Body should be Glorified these are Things that Nature cannot do Again secondly other Miracles there are that exceed the Power of Nature not in respect of that which is done but in respect of that wherein it is so as the Raising of the Dead and giving Sight unto the Blind Nature may be the Cause of Life but not in one that is dead and Nature may give Sight but not to one that was born Blind Lastly another sort of Miracles there is which do indeed exceed the Power of Nature but neither in the substance of the Fact nor in that werein 't is done but only in the Manner of doing as when one on a sudden by the Divine Power without the use of Physick or accustomed Process of Nature in such Cases is Cured of a Fever Of these Three sorts of Miracles the First is greater than the Second the Second than the Third because it farther exceeds the Power of Nature yet so as that each Sort have divers Degrees of advance above it so that one Miracle may be greater than another not only of another but also of the same sort However sure we are that among the Miracles of our Blessed Saviour it is no hard matter to find Instances of the First and Second as well as the Third Magnitude witness His feeding the Multitudes in the Wilderness his Casting out of Devils His raising the Dead and giving Sight unto the Blind c. Insomuch that since the World began it was never heard that any Man did the like and this takes away all Colour of Pretence for Unbelief for since the Jews had Reason to believe Moses their Master for his Miracles much more had they to believe Christ for His because the

follow his Example With what vigorous r●solutions may it inspirit us With what magnaninmity and fortitude notwithstanding all oppositions m●y it animate and embolden us to wressle not with ●l●sh and blood only but with Principaliti●s and Powers with the Rulers of the darkness of this World and spiritual wi●kedness in high pla●●s Since the Captain of our Salvation all alone and that when he was at the lowest both in single Duels and when their f●rces were united against him hath foiled and beaten both his and our enemies and is now made perfect in glory and power over them whom shall we fear of whom n●ed we be afraid in the way of our duty When we consider that He who upholdeth all things by the Word of his Power by which also they are made to bow unto and ob y him doth hims●lf sympathize with us in all our pr●ssures and troubles afflictions and temptations to the end that he might be able i. e. affectionately disposed to succour and therein to help us how exceedingly almost infinitely doth it pr●ponderate and out-weigh all the discouragements that we can possibly find or fansie either from the imbecillity of humane Nature or the power of Temptation or whatever other topicks there are from whence men think to draw excuses for their disobedience how do they all vanish and evaporate into Air before this one consideration viz. That He who now governs the World and shall h●reafter judge it is touched with a feeling of our infirmities and is able to succour them that are tempted What incouragement can we desire or indeed can he give us greater than this to continue his faithful Souldi●rs and S●rvants unto our Lifes end Let us then hear the conclusion of the whole matter which is this That seeing our Bl●ssed Lord Jesus in Redeeming us hath so e●fectually rescued us out of the hand of the Devil and s● brought us into the Liberty of Gods Service as that the Prince of the power of the Air who rules in the Children of disobedience cannot now approach to hurt us without his permission and our own unworthy defection from him He hath thereby obtained such an indisputable Right of Dominion over us as that his Commands do most evidently lay the obligation of most just Authority upon us And forasmuch as Christ in the dayes of his flesh made such an All-sufficient Atonement to his Father and now lives to make such Intercession for us as have and do procure to us the most inestimable Benefits and Favours that in this life can be conferred on us the most ample and the highest satisfaction that our Reason can expect to find in our Religion together with the greatest Encouragement that our Souls can have to obey it we must of necessity by the rules of Gratitude i. e. by the Laws of our own Nature be most highly obliged so to do For that a man which receiveth Benefit from another of meer Grace endeavour that he which giveth it have no reasonable cause to repe●t him of his good will the Leviathan it self grants to be a Law of Nature Although this be true yet is it but an ill-favoured definition of Gratitude for it deforms the face of that fair Vertue as if it looked directly only on it self and asquint upon its Benefactour and had no design but only to avoid an impend●nt evil viz. his repentance of his good will but there is more in it than so for it belongs to the nature of it for a benefit received from any one presently in heart and good Will largely to requite the Donor and afterwards seasonably to do it in word and deed according to the affection of the Giver ●nd the ability of the Receiver And to this we are obliged by the very Law of our Nature and consequently this we are bound to do unto God for the Benefits of our Redemption by our Blessed Lord Jesus But alas they are so free and transcendently great as that they infinitely exceed all requital and justifie astonishment at the goodness of the Donor What then shall we render unto the Lord for them it is evident we cannot be sufficiently thankful yet the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his Name and that of our lives in keeping his Command●●nts it is manifest we may render unto him Could we do more more we should be obliged to do the very Law of our own Nature would tell us that both the greatness of the Benefits and the affection of the Giver would deserve it at our hands How just therefore and reasonable is it for us to do what we can i. e. out of a Principle of Love and Gratitude and not of fear only to keep his Commandments and what ever it costs us to wal● in the same to our Lives end Which God of his Mercy grant all men Grace to do through the same Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be Glory and Honour Power and Dominion Praise and Thanksgiving World without End Amen FINIS Books Printed for William Crook at the Green-Dragon without Temple-Barre 1679. 1. 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