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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26785	The divinity of the Christian religion, proved by the evidence of reason and divine revelation by William Bates ...	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1677 (1677)	Wing B1104; ESTC R33149	60,636	228

not discover the deceit Nay that it should inspire them with invincible courage to assert that Christ was truely risen Or who can with the least colour of reason accuse the Apostles of simplicity or any disorder of mind when such are equal uniform and strong light shines in all their Writings whereas the discourses of Fools or distracted Persons are unshapt Abortions of the mind beginnings without a regular progress or if there be any coherence 't is short and alwayes attended with some notable extravagance Besides the constant order of their Lives and Actions was a certain proof of the composedness and wisdom of their minds To sum up briefly what is convincing that the Apostles were sincere and certain in their Testimony How could they be deceived when they say him do Miracles or by his power did the like Did they all dream in a night that they saw him appear after his Resurrection what could impress on them such a strong belief of that of which the Senses were the proper Judges Or could they conspire to invent such a falshood and so easily to be convinc'd with the least rational hope that the World should believe them How was it likely considering the variable humors of Men but that some of themselves either by violent fears or attractive hopes should be prevailed on to discover the Fiction and leave their Party What could inspire them with such a false security to despise the greatest Dangers and such a foolish presumption to undertake the greatest difficulties How could they expect to induce the World to believe in and worship One ignominiously put to death After such a convincing evidence what can Reason nay suspicion object with any colour to weaken their testimony The motives of credibility are so strong that we may be as truly satisfied of the reality of the things related by the Apostles as if we had been spectators of them our selves CHAP. IV. The accomplishment of Prophecies concerning the Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth is an unanswerable proof that he was sent from God to redeem the World The circumstances of his Birth the actions of his Life his Sufferings and Death clearly foretold The irreparable destruction of the State of the Jews was foretold as the just punishment for their rejecting of the Messiah That terrible Event is a continual Proof that Jesus Christ was what he declar'd himself to be the Son of God The Converting of the Gentile World to the Knowledge and Service of the true God by the Messiah was foretold in the Scriptures and is visibly fulfill'd The Accomplishment of this Prophecy by the most unlikely means against the strongest Opposition is manifestly the effect of Divine Power and is sufficient to convince the Jewish and Heathen Infidelity of the truth of Christianity THE Accomplishment of Prophecies concerning the MESSIAH his coming into the World the Work he should do his Sufferings and the Consequences of them afford undeniable proof that Jesus of Nazareth came from God for our Salvation Prescience of things to come and independent on the setled course and order of Natural Causes is an incommunicable Prerogative of God His Eye only can pierce the thick vail of futurity He has an open unconfin'd prospect of all things that were are and shall be Such perfection of Knowledge transcends Angelical Minds 'T is more easy for the Devil by an adventurous imitation to counterfeit Miracles than to give a clear and distinct prediction of things to come that depend on free Agents From hence it was that he gave responsals ambiguously to conceal his ignorance of future events and left those who consulted his Oracles dubious and hovering in what sense to understand them God alone could instruct the Prophets to foretel things at such a distance especially considering some of them are supernatural and others contingent from the wavering of second Causes Now the several Prophecies of Jesus Christ if united together make such an entire description of him that they seem rather Historical Narratives of what is past than Predictions of what was to come According to the Prophecies he was born of a Virgin a branch of the almost extinguish'd Family of David born in Bethlehem usher'd in by a forerunner meek lowly just and a worker of Miracles Therefore when John the Baptist sent some of his Disciples to enquire whether he was the Messiah that should come Our Saviour gave no direct Answer in words but referred them to his Works that gave a full and real testimony concerning him Go tell John the things which ye do hear and see the Blind receive their Sight the Lame walk the Lepers are cleansed the Deaf hear the Dead are raised up and the Poor have the Gospel preached to them That comparing his Miraculous Operations for the recovery of humane Bodies with the Prophecies there being a perfect Agreement between them and both undoubtedly from God They might by that clear and certain Caracter acknowledg him to be the Promised Messiah 'T is an Observation of St. Austin That the Son of God foreseeing the perverse Interpretations that his Enemies would make use of to darken the lustre of his Miracles accusing him as a solemn Magician that wrought by force of Inchantment that such a false Perswasion might not prevail sent the Prophets before his coming into the World From hence the Saint argues to repress those impious calumnies If by Magical Arts he did such Wonders as to conciliate Divine Honour to him even since his Death was he a Magician before he was born and did he know the succession of all things in his Life before he lived that by an impossible Miracle he predicted them to Moses David Esay Daniel and others Having thus argued the Saint turns himself to those Infidels as Christ to the Pharisees looking round about on them with anger being grieved for the hardness of their hearts and said O dead wretch hear the Prophets But above all His Death and Passion the substance of the Gospel is most exquisitly drawn with the lines of his own Blood Daniel foretels the time Zachary as if present at the execrable contract between Judas and the High-Priests tels us exactly the price of the Treason and then as if transported to Calvary he saw his Side open'd with the Spear and notes it in these words they shall look on him whom they have pierced David as if he had stood at the foot of the Cross in the hour of his Sufferings relates the manner of them in the Person of our Crucified Redeemer They peirced my Hands and my Feet Then the disjoynting of his Parts by the Torture I may tell all my Bones they look and stare upon me His hanging naked on the Cross they part my Garments among them and cast lots upon my Vesture the bitter draught they offer'd him they gave me also Gall for my Meat and in my thirst they gave me Vinegar to drink The blasphemous derision of the Priests and People