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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58916	A sermon preach'd in the chappel of His Excellency the Spanish embassador on the second Sunday of Advent, December 4. 1687. On which was solemniz'd the Feast of St. Francis Xaverius, of the Society of Jesus, apostle of the Indies and Kingdom of Japan. By the R.F. Lewis Sabran of the same Society. Permissu superiorum.	Sabran, Lewis, 1652-1732.	1687 (1687)	Wing S221A; ESTC R219047	32,337	38

prove the reality of his Miracles by the soundness of his Doctrin No but charged the Jews with the Sin of Incredulity Joan. 15. chiefly for not submitting themselves to him for not embracing his Doctrin on the account of his Miracles Doth this Method of Christ contradict the Law of God Not at all for Christ opposed neither Moses nor his Law but was foretold by the one accomplished the other The Jews gave a false Sense and Interpretation to Moses and the other Patriarchs and Prophets Predictions they pretended Christ mis-expounded them this was the Debate in which the Jews were obliged in Conscience to own Christ to take from him the true Sense of the Prophecies convinced by his Miracles that God sent and Commissioned him to Teach So in our Circumstances should any Person own as Antichrist will that he opposes himself to Christ or a new Doctrin to his established one 't is clear that no seeming Miracle could in reason move us to follow such a Person the Predictions and Miracles of Christ would fence us against all the deceitful Temptations such a Person could offer But when the Question is What Doctrin Christ did teach to the decision of which Question no Miracles wrought heretofore by Christ can be of any use when evident Miracles are wrought by those who are in a possession of the Doctrin delivered by Christ and his Apostles such Miracles as Christ himself promised they should be impowered to work who should believe as he had taught to plead against these that the opposite Doctrin is true therefore those Miracles are of no force and that Miracles are of no use but when the Doctrin they are brought to uphold is owned and followed This Answer hath less if possible of common Sense than he who should maintain That an excellent Antidote is of no use but Regula Credend per J. K. for such as have not taken any Poison as are out of all danger of any Infection Less than that Criminal who having heard clear positive and unquestionable Evidences brought in against himself should confidently say in his own defence That he cannot indeed on any score reject or disprove the Witnesses yet that the Judges cannot but see that they are not to be heard or minded because he is innocent and no Witnesses ought to be regarded who depose against an innocent Person Thus I have shewed how insignificant all the Objections are which may be offered against the undoubted Authority of S. Xaverius's Miracles One Scruple I will yet remove which I have known raised in some 't is this If the Authority of these Miracles be so weighty how come so many Learned Churchmen of our Persuasion not to yield to it I could be willing to pass by that Quaere without an Answer which must reflect somewhat severely on many but I must not forget my meek Saviour's sharp and severe Replies to those Scribes and Pharisees whose Credit with the People and Infidelity put an equal stop to the Conversion of the Jews How many Scribes Pharisees or Jewish Priests do we read of Converted by Christ Scarce a Gamaliel a Nicodemus and those also Concealed Disciples Night-Friends the immediate Voice of Christ his Hand and a heavy one were necessary to Convert a Saul Xaverius affords a plain Instance in the Case amongst the Twelve hundred thousand which he Instructed and Baptized how many Brachmans Bonzies and such blind Guides that Lead others into Errors were reckoned But one only or two Then sure to teach Errors is that Sin against the Holy Ghost which is so seldom pardoned as to be said Matt. 12 32. never to be Why then thick is that Cloud which People ever raise before their Eyes who impugn Truth and Error defended once with Heat is commonly maintained with an incorrigible Stubbornness No Miracle can equal such Peoples stubborn Insensibility and alter them It was such Scribes and Pharisees which Christ stil'd an Evil and Adulterous Generation to whom a Matt. 12. 39. Generatio prava adultera signum petit signum non dabitur ei Miracle should not be given Many 't is true were wrought in their Presence but of which not any one was given them that is no such interior plentiful Grace was allowed them as would so far move their stubborn Souls as to submit to Truth made out by such Prodigies Besides two other main Le ts stop such People in the pursuit of Truth which appeared in the following Passage Xaverius had convinced Two hundred Brachmans of the Errors of their Law and the Sanctity of the Christian they had owned both all of them in one Assembly The Saint hoped this Effect of Gods Grace would prove a mighty inviting Example But he no sooner pressed these Men to own the Favor God had done them and demand Baptism than he discovered his Error Their general Answer was And what will the World Bouhours l. 2. fol. 156. think of us who have so long plausibly taught so opposite a Religion And next who will maintain our Wives and Children Alas these are still the two unconquerable Difficulties of many at this day that are like to those Disciples of the Learned Plato who as St Augustin observes Probe sciebant knew well that their whole Religious Frame was the Work of Man occasioned by and followed on Human Designs But a long and public Custom had nurs'd them in it it was establish'd by Law and could not easily be Ex Consuetudine tamen publicâ quae quoniam Legibus erat confirmata convelli non poterat ne populos offenderent c. Aug. de Civit. Dei l. 8. c. 8. 12. taken to pieces in fine not to offend the Crowd they still sacrific'd to those Idols which had no being but by the meer invention of men by a Lay-Scripture of National Laws And can such mens Examples be of any force with conscientious men or prove a lett to their Conversion But so much the more are to be admired the Riches of the Goodness of God and the force of his conquering Graces whilst we see daily amongst us those in no small number who discerning at last the true Religion thro' the mist of those false Aspersions and disfiguring Misrepresentations under which it had ever been conceal'd from them remove all those strong Prejudices instill'd with their first Education deeper sunk in by a studious Application slight the bitter Invectives and severer Raileries of those whose Errors they relinquish abandon plentiful Livings overlook all their ancient Interest the Esteem of their Friends the Kindness of their Relations the Favours of their greatest Supports follow with Fidelity thro' Infamy and good Fame God's gracious Call rejoycing with the two Apostles that they are judged worthy to suffer such disgraces for his Holy Name ONE such Example ought to counterpoise a thousand whom Human Interest a darling Credit the Spirit of Opposition and Pride have wedded unchangeably to their Error Whoever having well