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A. Yes, III. There is the Concomitant Testimony, by the Works of Christ: Nicodemus could say, We know that thou art a Teacher come from God, for no Man can do the Works that thou dost, except God were with him, Joh. 3. 2. He cleansed the Lepers with his word, he cast out Devils, he healed the Lame, the Deaf, the Blind, yea that were born Blind; he healed Palsies, Fevers, and all manner of sicknesses with a touch, or a word▪ ⟨p. 43⟩he turned Water into Wine, he fed twice many Thousands by Miracle, he walked on the Sea, and made Peter do the same, the Winds and Sea obeyed his Command; he raised the Dead: This course of Miracles were the most evident Testimony of God.

A. Yes, III. There is the Concomitant Testimony, by the Works of Christ: Nicodemus could say, We know that thou art a Teacher come from God, for no Man can do the Works that thou dost, except God were with him, Joh. 3. 2. He cleansed the Lepers with his word, he cast out Devils, he healed the Lame, the Deaf, the Blind, yea that were born Blind; he healed Palsies, Feavers, and all manner of sicknesses with a touch, or a word▪ ⟨p. 43⟩he turned Water into Wine, he fed twice many Thousands by Miracle, he walkt on the Sea, and made Peter do the same, the Winds and Sea obeyed his Command; he raised the Dead: This course of Miracles were the most evident Testimony of God.

And he was brought into the World by Miracle: Born of a Virgin: Foretold and Named Jesus by an Angel: Preached to Shepherds by Angels from Heaven; a Star conducting the Eastern Wise-men to the place; John his foregoer named by an Angel, and Zechariah struck dumb for not believing it: Prophesied of by Anna and Simeon; owned at his Baptism by the visible descent of the Spirit in the shape of a Dove, and by a Voice of God from Heaven, and the like again at his Transfiguration, when Moses and Elijah appeared with him, and he did shine in Glory: And at his Death the Earth trembled, the Sun was obscured, and the Air darkened, and the Veil of the Temple rent: But the fullest Evidence was Christs own Resurrection from the Dead, his oft appearing to his Disciples after, and conversing with them at times for Forty Days, and giving them their Commission, and promising them the Spirit, and ascending into Heaven in their sight. And all this was the fuller Testimony, in that he had oft over and over foretold them of it, that he must be put to death and rise again the Third day, before he entered into his Glory: and the Jews knew it, and were not able to prevent it, Angels terrifying the Soldiers on the Watch.: Yea the Disciples understood it not, and therefore believed it not, and Peter dissuaded him from such talk of his Sufferings, till Christ called him Satan (doing