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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48836	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, on Decemb. 1, M.DC.LXVII, being the first Sunday in Advent by William Lloyd ...	Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1668 (1668)	Wing L2702; ESTC R20395	16,283	37

to all this which I am about to say That a poor Young man of the Meanest birth and breeding of a most hateful Nation and hated himself by that Nation for taking upon him to be a Prophet sent 'em from God for which he was laid hold of and put to a bitter and most shameful Death That after his death a few Fishermen and others as Mean as himself in all Circumstances should still Proclaim that he was that Prophet and confirm it with a Story of his Resurrection and with loud boasts of Miracles wrought by him and his Followers all which were utterly False Promising all them that would believe in him nothing in this world but Affliction and cruel Death which their own Sufferings prov'd to be True That such men with no other Charms should work such a Faith in all the Wisest part of Mankind and that with so lasting an Impression as Time has not been able to deface no nor Vice neither which is the thing that makes Them desire to deface it That so Impregnable a Faith should be bottom'd on so foul an Imposture Pardon me great God that I lend breath to their Blasphemies 't is a thing so prodigiously Incredible that it could never enter into any man's head unless he were for his Lust's sake as great a Monster of Credulity as I have shew'd him in other respects to be a very Monster of Unbelief I fear this Discourse may have been larger then the Occasion nay I hope it rather in this place and would to God that it were wholly Superfluous that there were no more Unbelievers in This world then there will be in the Other and then I am sure there would be Few enough But I have now done with Them and am to speak to your selves to You that believe the holy Scriptures desire to make a profitable Use of ' em And the Use of this Scripture is to observe what these men in my Text did according to Reason and allowing for the difference of Circumstances to do the same Thing our selves Namely if we have any Prophet yet to come and the promise of Miracles to know him by then it is our Duty when we see those Miracles to acknowledge that Prophet but if we have no such Prophet to expect and no more Miracles to look for then it behoves us to make much of those Miracles and that Prophet that we have already and to look for No other This appears to be the natural consequence of my Text. It hath been proved that Christ is that Prophet of whom God has foretold us from the beginning of the World and this Prophet has told us Behold I am with you to the end of the World But have we any other to look for any other Prophet to come any farther Miracles to know him by It should seem that we have For Christ saies words to that purpose and he saies it not lightly but he laies great weight upon it Behold saies he I tell you of this before There shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall show great Signs and Wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very Elect. Particularly 2 Thess. ii 9. That Son of perdition whose coming shall be after the working of Satan with all power and Signs and lying wonders So likewise 1 Tim. iv 1. The Spirit speaks expresly that thus it shall be in the Latter times All which things are confirmed by other places of Scripture and are applyed by St. Iohn to the second Beast that hath horns like a Lamb but speaks like a Dragon Whose Miracles are set forth Rev. xiii 13. xvi 14. xix 20. c. That the first Beast which St. Iohn there describes with seven Heads was the Heathen and Imperial Rome I think all Interpreters do agree Whether the second Beast be the Papal Rome it is not our business now to enquire let them see to it that are her Worshippers and Followers But it is our business to know whom to beware of and Christ has warn'd us of some body that shall pretend to Miracles and we know of none but the Papal Rome that does pretend to them She makes it one of her Marks and vaunts that she is to be known by her Miracles But what then did not Christ promise Miracles to his Church and ought not His Promise to be made good It is most true that he did promise and that he has perform'd we have sufficient proofs of it both in Scripture and in the Records of the Primitive Church For it was necessary that our great Prophet should be made known to us as well in his Doctrine as in his Person that the Christian Faith should be planted and setled by Miracles But when this Doctrine was written and publisht and where this Faith was planted and generally received Then there was no such necessity Then it was enough to say thus it is written which Writings were as obligatory to all them that had received this Doctrine as if they had been preacht to them severally by persons risen from the dead Of which those Fathers were so throughly satisfied that lived in those times when most part of the world was already converted that they plainly profest that now the time of Miracles was at an end They are few and rare now if any saith Chrysostome in Hom. 4. on Mat. There are more feign'd ones amongst false Christians then true ones amongst the true saith the Author of the Imperfect work Hom. 49. 'T is enough for Christians that the old Miracles are read to them saith St. Austin and for Heathens that Miracles are yet done by us though not so Frequently nor so Manifestly as in former times Little did these good men think that within some Ages after they were dead and in those places where there were no Heathens to convert there should arise a sect of Christians more abounding with Miracles in some one age than were ever seen in all ages of the world before and the Reason is plain for those Fathers never dreamt of those new Doctrines and designs that would have need to be usher'd in and supported with new Miracles nor of the wickedness of those men that holp the Devil to invent them nor of the gross ignorance of an after-age that fitted the people to receive ' em All which things had they not conspired together it had been Impossible for such monstrous Absurdities to be imposed upon the Faith of so great a part of Mankind How could those strange Fictions of Purgatory have ever obtain'd if men had not been fool'd into the belief of them with pretended Visions and Revelations and Apparions Who could ever have been so Sottish as to adore the works of the Pencil and the Chizzle unless the dumb things themselves had been made to move and sweat and talk and weep for it What Believer of the true God would ever have stoopt to the Invocation of his fellow-creatures