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A28280	The sufficiency of a standing revelation in general, and of the Scripture revelation in particular both as to the matter of it and as to the proof of it : and that new revelations cannot reasonably be desired and would probably be unsuccessful in eight sermons preach'd in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, London, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., in the year MDCC / by Ofspring Blackall ...	Blackall, Offspring, 1654-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing B3055; ESTC R6615	150,254	268

THE SUFFICIENCY Of a Standing REVELATION in General AND Of the Scripture REVELATION in Particular BOTH As to the Matter of it and As to the Proof of it AND That NEW REVELATIONS Cannot Reasonably be Desired and Would Probably be Unsuccessful In Eight SERMONS Preach'd in the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH of St. Paul London At the LECTURE Founded by the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE Esq in the Year MDCC By OFSPRING BLACKALL D. D. Rector of St. Mary Aldermary and Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by J. Leake for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1700. THE SUFFICIENCY OF A Standing Revelation A SERMON Preach'd at the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH of St. Paul January the 1 st 1699 700. BEING The First for the Year 1700 of the LECTURE Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq By OFSPRING BLACKALL Rector of St. Mary Aldermary and Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by J. Leake for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1700. To the most Reverend Father in GOD THOMAS Lord Arch-Bshop of Canterbury Sir HENRY ASHURST Baronet Sir JOHN ROTHERAM Serjeant at Law JOHN EVELYN Senior Esquire Trustees appointed by the Will of the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE Esquire Most Reverend and Honoured I Beg leave humbly to present you with these First-fruits of my Labours in that Station which you have been pleased to assign me for this Year Taking this Occasion both to acknowledge publickly and with all Thankfulness the Honour you have done me in appointing me to this Work and likewise to give you Assurance that the After-fruits shall also in due Time be offered to you if God shall be pleased to give them a Season to ripen And I heartily wish they may be better and more worth your Acceptance than I am sensible these are However I hope the same Goodness and kind Opinion of me which moved you to nominate me to the Employment will incline you to forgive all my Failings in the Management of it And if my Labours shall be well accepted by you And especially If by the Blessing of God who only giveth the Increase they shall any Ways contribute toward the Promoting the pious Design of the Honourable Founder of these Lectures of blessed Memory I shall be very easie under the too just Charge of Insufficiency for such an Vndertaking which I make no Doubt will be cast upon me by those who will be inwardly glad that I have performed my Task no better and will earnestly wish that the Christan Cause may never have an abler Advocate But that by your wise Choice of Persons to succeed in this Employment they may see themselves every Year disappointed in this their Wish is the hearty Desire of Most Reverend and Honoured Your most obliged and obedient Servant OFSP BLACKALL Feb. 26. 1699 700. St. LUKE XVI 29 30 31. Abraham saith unto him They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them And he said Nay father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead THESE words contain some of the Discourse that passed between Abraham in Heaven and a certain rich Man in Hell occasioned by a Request which he had made in the foregoing Verses in the behalf of his five Brethren whom he had left alive upon Earth that Abraham would be so kind as to send Lazarus to them to testifie to them lest they also should come into that Place of Torment And the general Design of them and indeed of the whole Parable of which they are a Part is to assert the Sufficiency of those Means which God hath thought fit to use to bring Men to Repentance particularly by granting them a standing Revelation of his Will and the probable Unsuccessfulness of any other Method that we could propose and perhaps might think more proper for this Purpose And when these Words were first spoken it was with a special Reference to the State of the Jews and and to that Light and those Means of Salvation which were afforded to them at the Time when our Saviour began his Preaching when all the standing Revelation of God's Will was contained in the Books of Moses and in the Writings of the Prophets But since then our Lord Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God a more credible Messenger than Lazarus from the dead has come himself in Person to assure us that there is a Heaven and a Hell and to shew us the Means of attaining that and avoiding this and God having raised him up from the dead after he had been crucified by the Jews has given sufficient Assurance to the World of his divine Mission And that Jesus did and said such things and that he died and rose again we have the Testimony of his Apostles and others who were Eye and Ear-witnesses thereof and who in Confirmation of their Testimony were empowered by God to do as great Miracles as Jesus himself had done And lastly of what was done and taught by our Saviour and his Apostles we have very credible Records still remaining viz. the Books of the New Testament the Authority of which is at least as well proved to us as ever the Authority of the Old Testament was to the Jews So that we now have plainly more and stronger Motives to Repentance than the Jews before our Saviour's Time had we consequently do stand in less need of new Miracles and new Revelations than they did And therefore the Argument in the Text as it may be applied to us who live now is much stronger than as it was here urged by Abraham with Reference to the Jews while they had only Moses and the Prophets And thus in my Discourse upon the Words I shall now consider it viz. as if the Request made by the rich Man in the Behalf of his Brethren in the two foregoing Verses were made now in the Behalf of those to whom the Revelation of the Gospel has been given but without Success and as if the Answer here returned to it by Abraham had been suited to the present State of things And from the words thus largely understood I shall take occasion to speak to these Three Points I. I shall endeavour to shew that the present standing Revelation of God's Will contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament is abundantly sufficient to perswade Men to Repentance if they are not unreasonably blind and obstinate They have Moses and the Prophets I add they have also Christ and his Apostles let them hear them II. I shall shew that having already such good Grounds of Faith such full Directions for Practice and such strong Motives to Repentance it is an unreasonable Request to desire more Nay Father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent And III. Lastly I shall endeavour to shew That in case God should condescend to