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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60477	Christian religion's appeal from the groundless prejudices of the sceptick to the bar of common reason by John Smith.	Smith, John, fl. 1675-1711.	1675 (1675)	Wing S4109; ESTC R26922	707,151	538

have been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inopinata praeter omnem expectationem contrà omnium opinionem A word which may seem to have faln into his Pen either from the mouth of the people or the Text of the Evangelist Luke 5. 26. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we have seen strange things to day unexpected things which we look'd not for from Joseph's Son chap. 4. 22. from him whose Father and Mother and Sisters we know This was the Vulgar Vote though the Christ when he comes will not cannot do greater Miracles than this man doth yet that this man whose Generation we can declare and know it to be so mean should thus speak and work is that which we little expected The whole Nation were now big with expectation of some great Man who should do great Things they looked when the Mountains would bring forth when God would shake the Heavens and thence send the Desire of all Nations while they are thus musing the Branch springs up out of the wither'd Stem the dryed Root of David's Stock without form without comeliness one wherein they could see no beauty here they are as much frustrated of their expectation as those in the Fable were when they saw nothing but a Mouse born of the swelling Mountains But when they see this Mouse gnaw asunder the Cords wherein Satan had kept the Seed of Abraham fast bound when they see this Worm stinging the old Serpent to death when they see this little Stone bearing down all adverse power before it this was as much above what they looked for from so contemptible a Person as his external Form was below that Grandeur they looked for in their Messias Besides Impostures filled their Followers with expectation of great things from them by their boasting of their power to work Miracles they had a Trumpet before them to call men in to see the show Here goes the mighty Power of God who will come and see it exerted was the cry of the Simonists Come with me to the Mount of Olives and I will make the Walls of Jerusalem fall flat to the ground by a Battery of omnipotent Words crys one Go with me to Mount Gerazim there I 'l shew you what has been hid from Ages cries another March with me into the Wilderness and I 'l there do wonders crys another But the Powers of the Kingdom of Heaven exert themselves in the works of our Saviour without ostentation his Miracles I mean those he wrought to convince the Jews before his Passion were unpremeditate and extempore the maladies he kill'd felt the Bullet before the by-standers heard the Crack he rung no Bell to that Dinner he prepared for many thousands of a few Loaves and Fishes his Acts of wonder were without Prologues surprised the Spectators with their suddenness were done before they could forethink he would do them and upon that account 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strange things they looked not for § 5. And yet Josephus affirms that the Jews had all the reason in the World to expect the doing of such things as Christ did by some Person of note whom God was to raise up for the benefit of that Nation for thus he writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The divine Prophets having feretold these and other wonderful things concerning him wherein he fully accords with our Evangelists in this main Foundation-point 3. That the Wonders which Jesus of Nazareth wrought were such as the Prophets of God had foretold should be wrought by the Christ when he came A point which is constantly prest by our sacred Historiographers and appealed to by our Saviour in the answer he returned to John the Baptist when he sent his Disciples to enquire whether he were the Christ Go and tell John what you see that the blind see the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised c. If these be not the Works assigned to the Messias by the Prophets believe me not that I am he The Miracles that Christ did were not elective Works as those were which false Christs pretended to but fore-appointed and prescribed him by the Spirit of Prophesie and therefore as they point him out to be him that was to come for never man but he applyed himself to work by the Rule of Prophecy and I challenge all Reading to produce one Example of a person beside him that so much as pretended to the doing of those wonders that the Prophets cut out for the Christ. So they clearly evince those VVonders that were reported by common and undoubted Fame in the Age of Josephus to be those very Works of Christ that are specified in the Evangelical History there being none of them but bear this Character are such as the Prophets fore-told the Messias should work and none but those in the Gospel being by any persons fasten'd upon Christ that will abide that Test or have not been reprobated upon that Rule of Trial. The Enemy began betimes to sow the Tares of Forgeries with the good Seed of Evangelical History Some as the Carpocratians reporting other things of Christ than what the Gospel relates upon this pretence that Christ did or taught those things in private to some choice Disciples Irenaeus cont Haeretic lib. 1. And that false Merchant Isidore is not ashamed to feign the holy Bishop Clemens whom St. Paul mentions in his Epistle to the Romans to make the same Plea in his Apostolical Canons Under the same Pretext the Ebionites Gnosticks Carpocratians c. forged the Gospel by St. Thomas St. Andrew St. Philip St. Matthias St. Peter St. Thaddaeus St. James the younger St. Barnaby St. Bartholomew the Book of the Infancy and another of the Nativity of our Saviour of his Mother and her Midwife the Manichees Book called the Foundation Crab. conc tom 1. Gelasii decreta pag. 992. Tertullian in his Prescription against Hereticks affirms that when they could not make good their Conceipts by Scripture they pretended that either the Disciples did not know all that was necessary for the Church Christ telling them he had many things to say unto them which they were not able to bear or else that they did not communicate all they knew to all but that they reserved the greatest Mysteries for them that were perfect Others boasted that what they reported of Christ beside what was contain'd in the Gospel they had from the Apostles by word of mouth This was Artemon's Plea Euseb. 5. 28. Clemens Strom. 7. tells us that Basilides gloried in his having for his Master one Glancias the Interpreter of St. Paul that Valentinus father'd his Fanatick VVhimsies upon Theodate St. Paul's Familiar and that the Marcionites bragged that the Disciples of St. Matthias were their Teachers And Athanasius 2. contrà Arrianos recites this Exordium of a writing of Arrius I have heard these things of the Elect of God of the most knowing and even paced servants of God These they called Depths of knowledge but Christ calls