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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96120	The way to make all discerning lovers of truth of one mind: for the stronger opposition of those who would ruine them with errours and discords flowing from them. / By A lover of truth and peace ; published with authority.	Lover of truth and peace.	1687 (1687)	Wing W1169A; ESTC R186320	8,063	40

the Dead turn Water into Wine feed thousands of People with the miraculous multiplication of a few Loaves and Fishes and many more is as certain as universal Tradition which is surer than any Chronicle and the Testimony of the then present and succeeding Matters could make it To this I shall add the Testimony of an Adversary Josephus a Jew of Quality and Learning who liv'd about forty years after Christ in his Jewish History doubts whether he may call Jesus of Nazareth a Man his Miracles were so great But the constant Deaths of him and most of his Apostles are the surest of all Evidences for though St. Peter deny'd him yet he dyed for his Truth and tho' Judas betrayed him he accused him not for an Impostor but hanged himself for having betray'd just Blood. And the miraculous Resurrection of our Saviour was evident to so many Witnesses in several places as confirm'd them all As St. Matthew Chap. 28. ver 6. He is not here for he is risen as he said come see the place where the Lord lay And again ver 10. Then said Jesus unto them be not afraid go tell my Brethren that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me And ver 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the World Amen And in St. Mark Chap. 16. ver 14. Afterwards be appeared to the Eleven as they sat at Meat and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of Heart because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen And in St. Luke Chap. 24. ver 36. And as they thus spake Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said unto them Peace be unto you And ver 39. Behold my Hands and my Feet that it is I my self handle me and see for a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see Me have And in St. John Chap. 21. ver 14. This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his Disciples after that he was risen from the Dead Now we need cite no more Texts to prove the Resurrection But his inspired Apostles being timerous and illiterate were so changed by the Holy Ghost that they had the courage to underake the Conversion of the greatest part of the known World and were suddenly made Masters of all Languages to enable them to propagate their hard and un-pleasing Doctrine as appears by many very plain Texts in the Acts of the Apostles Chap. 2. and begins ver 4. and so goes on to the 13. verse 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance 5. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews devout Men out every Nation under Heaven 6. Now when this was noised abroad the Multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language 7. And they were all amazed and marvelled saying one to another Behold and are not all these that speak Galileans 8. And how hear we every Man in our own Tongue wherein we were born 9. Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the dwellers in Mesopotamia and in Judea and Cappadocia in Pontus and Asia 10. Phrygia and Pamphilia in Aegypt and in the parts of Lybia about Cyrene and Strangers of Rome Jews and Proselites 11. Cretes and Arabians We do hear them speak in our Tongues the wonderful Works of God. 12. And they were all amazed and in doubt saying one to another What meanes this Now the effects do clearly prove the truth of this Miracle For the Multitude of Converts in all these Nations could not be made without Language and a few poor illiterate Fishermen could not learn all their Languages at once without he miraculous Power of God. But the performance of this undertaking was the greatest of all Miracles that they and their Successors affected without the Compulsion of an Army which Mahomet used But their Doctrine did spring up in Blood in spight of all the Power and Tyranny of the Romans with their varieties of cruel Deaths and Tortures to suppress it till the miraculous Sign of the Cross in the Air Converted the Great Constantine with the greatest part of his Army to Christianity by those Legible Words In this Sign thou shalt overcome And though Mahometism hath usurped upon Christianity in Asia and Africa yet the greater part of the Turks Subjects are Christians still And God hath made as great an Addition to his Christian Flock as hath been elsewhere abated in America alone besides the Advancement of it in China Aethiopia and other parts of the East Indies And now though I have said nothing but what is expressed more learnedly and copiously in greater Volumes yet since Epitomies are soon read over by those who may be busie or negligent when larger Tracts are laid by I do not distrust but that I have here laid enough together to satisfie all discerning Lovers of Truth and that I shall engage many Readers to be of a mind as far as Christianity And now my next attempt will be the Union of Christians amongst themselves But because I am to cite several Texts of Scripture for the satisfaction of those who relie upon nothing else I shall also assert the Truth of the New Testament to endeavour the satisfaction of those who are no Lovers of Truth but doubt or mis-believe the Contents of it And to begin with the four Evangelists the first Writers of the New Law. THE Tradition of most Nations omitting the Church History and Fathers for Brevity sake assure us that they were all Men of Exemplary Piety and Sufferings and Two of them were of the Twelve Apostles who could mistake nothing they were Actors in And St. Matthew made good his miraculous Actions and Writings with his Blood. And St. John the beloved Apostle of our Saviour suffered Torments worse than Death The other two were fam'd through all the Believing World for their great Sanctity It is enough to say that their Writings with the rest of St. Paul and the rest of that mysterious Volume were water'd with the Bloods of their living and succeeding Disciples and that most of the Nations of Europe Asia and Africa had great numbers of Martyrs who dyed within the first three hundred years after Christ with variety of excessive Torments to justifie the Contents of this Sacred Volume And if we consider how it hath passed through many Languages and is preserved to this day by most Nations with very little difference We may well call it the universal Chronicle not to be doubted For if it be foolish to doubt the main of our own Chronicle written by four or five Authors what can we think of those who doubt the Word of God backt by so universal a Tradition but that they cannot see the Sun for too much Light. But though the whole Sacred Writ is a most precious Liquor yet