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kingdom_n	bless_v	father_n	inherit_v	1,819	5	9.6520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66426	The several ways of revelation a sermon preached at St. Martins in the Fields, Octob. 7, 1695 : being the seventh of the lecture for the said year, founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2733; ESTC R7609	14,474	36

should prove a Prediction of seven Years Plenty and Famine or the felling of the Tree be an Emblem of Nebucha●nezzar's dethronization or that a Cake of Bread tumbling into the Host and overturning a Tent should presignify the Sword and Success of Gideon and that into his hand God would deliver the host of Midian was utterly unaccountable if it were not as Joseph said to Pharaoh that God himself thereby shewed what he was about to do and that it came from him who is a Revealer of Secrets as Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged Lastly The like may be said of a Revelation by Voice which if internal is the same with a Dream or Vision as going along with it and so has the same sort of evidence If external it is its own evidence as was that from Heaven to give testimony to our Saviour Or it was by way of Oracle and then the Authority of the Voices was justified by the numerous Predictions the design they apparently promoted of encouraging the good of admonishing and reforming the bad and in all of promoting Vertue and true Religion in the world and to whose veracity future Ages have given Testimony by sutable Events Whereas those of the Heathens were very suspic●ous and doubtful and often detected to be only Forgery and a Conspiracy and disowned at that time when in vulgar estimation by the wisest among themselves and the reputation of which at last as well utterly fell as the pretence to them did So that were the Case to be put upon this issue and to be decided by the measures before laid down we may safely venture the whole Cause of Revelation upon it when there is nothing wanting that can reasonably be desired toward the justification of its veracity and that there is no manner of pretence for applying the same terms of evidence and sincerity to Imagination as to Inspiration or to Imposture whether Enthusiastical or Diabolical as is to Revelation For when was it known that Imagination or Nature did ever empower persons to speak all Languages and to discourse readily at once with the Parthians Medes and Elamites c. in their several Tongues When did Imagination or Nature enable persons without any skill to cure Diseases naturally incurable and such as had no Humane Learning to talk like Philosophers of the sublimest Arguments and with as much freedom as they used the Speech of the Foreign Nations they instructed Further What Imagination or Nature or Art could inspirit Moses with such a supernatural Power as to turn his Rod into a Serpent and to devour those of the Magicians and by a stroke of it to fetch water out of the Rock and stop the mighty Current of the Sea What Imagination could form such Idea's in the minds of a Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar or inspire a Joseph and a Daniel to give such an Interpretation of them as justified it self to be true by a correspondent Event When did Imagination give life to a Fly or do the least Act out of it self When did that or Nature or Imposture raise the dead with Elisha call for Fire from Heaven with Elijah or foretel what shall happen a hundred or a thousand years after or so much as what a Person shall think to morrow Here we may challenge all the Magicians of a Pharaoh and a Nebuchadnezzar all the Men of Art and Science all the Enthusiasts and Impostors in the World to talk as the Persons Inspired did talk to do as they did and to produce those Testimonies as those upon occasion produced in their own justification and for the confirmation of their Mission from God From all which we see what evidence we have for the Truth of our Revelation by the various ways of its manifestation If we had such Inspirations such Visions of things future and remote c. what evidence could we desire more to attest and bear witness to what we are to believe and receive And what Absurdities must we be cast upon if we would venture to call those matters of Fact in question which though peculiar to those times lose not their evidence and force because they are not in ours nor have been for several Ages nor are to be in the Christian Church However there are those manifestations of the Divine Presence and Power which we are all capable of and may obtain by Prayer to God and which shall be more beneficial to us than if we our selves could work Miracles and were the Inspired Persons to whom God did thus make known himself as he did in time past to the Prophets and those are the Grace and Assistance of his Holy Spirit and the doing his Will Qualifications that will render us more acceptable to him and make us more capable of his favour and all the advantages of it in this world and that to come than if we could divide the Sea with Moses or stop the Sun in its course with Joshua or raise the dead with Elisha For then though without those miraculous Donations we may be received with a Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Which God of his Infinite Mercy grant to us all through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS Cic. l. 2. de Nat. Deor. Rom. 16.25 26. Gal. 1.12 1 Cor 2.10 Ephes. 3.3 5 6. 1 Thes. 4.8 Acts 22.17 18. Acts 9.4 c. 26.13 1 Cor. 15.8 Acts 12.9 Jerem. 13.1 c. 25.15 Ezek. ch 3.4.5 c. Ezek. 1.1 8.3 c. Acts 9.12 Ezek. 8.1 Revel 1.10 2 Cor. 12.1 Gen. 17.1 c. Psal. 80.1 Gen. 18.1 19.1 Hebr. 13.2 Num 16.42 c. Job 33.14 15.4.13 Revel 17.13 21.20 Acts 10.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Numb 24.14 Gen. 4● ● Exod. 33.9 11. 1 Sam. 28.6 2 Pet. 1.17 Ezek. 21.21 Deut. 18.10 c. Serm. 3. p. 7. Jer. 20.9 Ezek. 3.14 Judg. 6.21 37. 7.13 14. Exod. 4.3 6. Serm. 3. p. 13. Exod. 8.18 1 Kings 19.24 36. 1 Kings 22.28 29. Joh. 10. ver 41. Joh. 5.31 36. 1 Kings 22.19 Gen. 20.3 Mat. 3.17 Vid. Ser. 2. p. 36.