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A66408	The perfection of the evangelical revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Jan. 6, 1695/6, being the first of the lecture for this present year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2717; ESTC R38655	14,734	36

and this mortal shall put on immortality An Encouragement that is the highest Cordial that can work upon Humane Nature and will if any Consideration can qualify the Troubles of this present Life and set a man above the fears of an exclusion out of it And when this is promised there can nothing be offer'd beyond it nor is there any need to find out others after this is proposed And such as the Promises are such are the Conditions required of us which are as unchangeable as the Reward those indeed are unchangeable from the Divine Declaration and God's faithfulness but these are unchangeable from the nature of the things as well as the Divine Command So that there is no room for another Revelation unless we can change the nature of things and make evil good and good evil and put darkness for light and light for darkness unless we will dissolve all Order and confound all Relations and set the Creature loose from all obligations of Love and Gratitude and Service to the Creator Terms surely uncapable of abatement or alteration For who can suppose Mankind should be left at liberty whether they would love God or neglect him whether obey or violate his Laws whether they would be vertuous or vicious and whether they would believe in Jesus and own him to be their Saviour or with the Jews reject him and not have him to reign over them Alter the Promises and Conditions and there is another Gospel and another Revelation but till they are altered or alterable there needs no New Revelation All the abatements or relaxations that can be allowed are inserted into the body of this Revelation where there is a two fold allowance an allowance of remission for whatever sins are past and truly repented of and an allowance for Humane Infirmities under the strictest obligations to our duty And lower than these the Gospel doth not nor for the reason before given can descend since then it would countenance Impenitence and establish Iniquity by a Law and then indeed it had been an imperfect a defective a faulty Covenant and there would have been a place for a New 3. The extent of this Law or New Covenant is such as none can exceed it for it is as much fitted for the whole Race of Mankind as any could be for any particular Nation The Law of Moses was a Law to the Jews suited to their Temper and Circumstances in its original Frame and Constitution and so what other Nations as Nations could not come within the benefit of nor could particular Persons otherwise than as they became Proselytes and made themselves subject to it by the same way of initiation in Circumcision And it is of the nature of all Humane Laws though the general Lines running through them are one and the same that they are fitted for the immediate use and service of that People whose Laws they are and which therefore vary infinitely and alter as Circumstances alter and as Reasons of State require But now the Gospel-Dispensation comprehends in it all Nations and they are all to that as if they were but one People It was our Saviour's Commission to his Apostles after his Resurrection Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature And such as the Commission was such were the Rules and Precepts they were to give and publish which were of universal concernment and obligation and neither confined by Persons nor Places by Times nor Circumstances but what all Persons in all Places Times and Circumstances are equally obliged to observe and which are of that nature and have such a tendency to the good welfare and happiness of Mankind whether alone or in Society whether as particular Persons or Families or Nations that if exactly observed purity and peace and love would every where abound and the Earth be a kind of Paradise again And therefore if there be any Narrowness of mind and feuds among Mankind if Vice and Wickedness overflow the World it is not for want of a Law every way perfect to bind and restrain them or that there need another Gospel to mend them but for the reason given by St. James from their lusts that war in their members 4. If we consider the Evidence given to the Gospel-Revelation we shall find there needs no other evidence to be given to that Revelation nor that there needs any other Revelation for want for want of Evidence in this Our Saviour's Life was a Life of Miracles as well as Innocence and where ever he went the Divine Power went along with him for in him dwelt the fulness of the Godhead bodily And which he exerted where ever he came and as occasion served to the confusion if not the convicton or conversion of his Adversaries and all which at last concluded in his own Resurrection from the dead his Ascension into Heaven and the effusion of the Holy Ghost which began on Pentecost but like a torrent ran on through the Apostolical Age and bore down all manner of competition And what then can any Revelation pretend to beyond it or where can there be any that can be suppos'd to produce the like Evidence for its veracity as I have just before observ'd Lastly How can we have a Gospel that can pretend to vye with that which the Son of God came into the World to reveal who was the last that was to come from Heaven and when our Faith is that which was once delivered to the Saints Once for all and so there is no more another Faith or Revelation to be expected after that than another Mediator after Him who was once offered to bear the sins of many This leads to the Third Branch 3. The Scripture shuts up all with this Revelation and because we have now no Revelation but that Written Revelation we cannot suppose any Revelation beyond it and much less derogatory to it or that shall direct us to any other way by which we are to be saved than that we have already received and is therein recorded I have before observed that the time from our Blessed Saviour's appearance and the publication of the Gospel by him to his second coming is called the last days in Scripture and consequently has none to succeed it So the Apostle As it is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without a sin-offering unto salvation That is as there is no alteration in the state from Death unto Judgment but as men dye so they will appear to be at Judgment So there is no alteration to be between Christ's first appearing when he offered himself and his second when he shall so come in like manner as he was seen to go into heaven If therefore there is to be any alteration as to this Revelation it is not to be before but