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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59560	A sermon preached at White-hall, in Lent on Friday, March 20, 1684/5 / by John Sharp ...	Sharp, John, 1645-1714.	1685 (1685)	Wing S2988; ESTC R7068	17,221	41

such Circumstances would mightily awaken them and put them upon a more serious Consideration of the folly of their Ways and the danger they exposed them to than ever they entred into before and this Consideration it is likely might work them to serious Resolutions of quitting their present Courses and entring upon a stricter Life Certainly such an Apparition as this in reason should work such Effects and without doubt upon many it would But this we say Whether did not our Saviour perform a great deal more than all this comes to in order to the Conviction and Conversion of all about him And whether had not these five Brethren supposing them to live when he preached his Gospel and to be Witnesses of his Actions much more reason to be persuaded by what he did and taught than by the aforesaid Vision Our Saviour did by all the Signs and Tokens in the World evidence himself to be an Express Messenger sent from God which they could not be certain that the Vision was The Prophetick Records of their own Country did all testifie of him and they themselves by comparing his Life and them together might see they were fulfilled in him To omit the Circumstances of his Birth which were such as never any besides himself was born with After he came to enter upon his Publick Employment God did more than once by a Voice from Heaven testifie that he had sent him and that all People were to hearken to him And the Truth of this he himself confirmed not onely by his Life which was the most Innocent and Vertuous and God-like that ever was Nor onely by his Sermons and Doctrines which were the most Perfect and Unexceptionable and every way the most worthy of God that ever were taught among Men But also and most chiefly by his extraordinary Works which were such as none but God or one Acted by a Divine Power could possibly perform He did the greatest things that ever were seen by Men. He shewed by his Actions and those most publickly done and frequently repeated that he had an absolute Sovereign Power over the Course of Nature over the Invisible Agents of this World as well Angels as Devils and likewise over both the Bodies and the Souls of Men. And particularly to make it appear that his Testimony was more Authentick his Authority more to be relied on than that of any Ghost any Lazarus whatsoever that should rise from the dead It was very usual with him to send again to the Living those that were once dead And one Lazarus he really brought again from the Bosom of Abraham after he had been four days dead to testifie to the World that Iesus was the Great Embassador that God had sent and that all Mankind were to receive and obey him And lest all this should not be convincing enough lest it should be said still One that should rise from the dead and come and preach to us would leave the greater Impressions upon us Iesus himself did rise from the dead and did come and preach to the World and that in a far more convincing manner than the Ghost of Lazarus would have done if the Rich man had had his own Wish For Iesus told his own Death before-hand and foretold also his Resurrection And if God meant not to lay an invincible Temptation before Mankind to believe a Falshood it had concerned his Providence to have hindred this Resurrection if Iesus had been any thing else than what he pretended to be But he did rise after three days according to his Prediction and conversed upon Earth with his Followers for forty days together shewing himself not onely to a few particular Disciples but to great Crowds of them Five hundred at a time And after this in the sight of his Friends he took his leave of the World and ascended up into Heaven And for a Testimony how God approved him there he sent down the Holy Spirit upon his Disciples who for many years together enabled them to do our Saviour's Miracles over again in confirmation of his Doctrine If now to come to our Argument if these five Brethren of the Rich man be supposed to be alive when all these things came to pass If they had the Opportunity of being present at many of these Passages and of satisfying themselves of the rest as certainly supposing the Matter of Fact to be true none that lived at that time and in that Country but had this Opportunity If they heard this Iesus that was sent from God at the first and that was sent from God the second time after he was dead testifying against their Sins forewarning them of the Judgment to come and assuring them of Eternal Rewards if they would repent I say If they were Witnesses of these things I will appeal to all the World whether they had not greater Means of Conviction offered to them than if any Ghost had appeared to them from the Dead or any particular Miracle had been vouchsafed them for the bringing them over to Vertue and Sobriety But I believe no body will much doubt of this for indeed the Matter will not bear a Dispute But here is the Question Whether we that live at this distance from our Saviour have the same Means of Conviction and Whether one now appearing from the dead to us would not be of greater force to persuade us than the standing Revelation of the Gospel as we have it now conveyed to us This therefore leads me to my second Proposition upon this Head which if it can be made out will wholly take away all Controversie in this matter And it is this That we at this day have as great Arguments to convince us of the Truth of Christ's Revelation and consequently as great Motives from thence to persuade us to reform our Evil Lives as those that lived in the Times of our Saviour It is true indeed we want the Evidence of Sense in these Matters which they had and upon that account it must be acknowledged that they have the Advantage of us But this we say notwithstanding That if we take all things together and weigh them Impartially we shall find that that Want is abundantly supplied to us in other respects For first of all Our Saviour's Gospel and all the Evidences of it I have been now speaking of were timely and faithfully recorded and are as faithfully transmitted down to us So that though we did not see or hear those things yet we have a certain and exact Account of them and such an Account as was never yet questioned by any Adversaries that lived in those Times when such a Question was most reasonably to be made and such an Account as appears by all the Evidences that a thing of that nature is capable of to have been written by Eye-witnesses and such Witnesses as were honest undesigning Men and not onely so but they sealed with their Blood the Truth of what they reported And this same Account was religiously