The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

2. Suppose you had seen the matters revealed in the Gospel to your faith, as to what is past and done already? If you had seen the deluge and the Ark, and preservation of one righteous family: the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from Heaven; and the saving of Lot whose righte••• soul was grieved at their sins, and hunted after as a prey to their ungodly rage, because he would have hindered them from transgressing? Suppose you had seen the opening of the Red Sea, the passage of the Israelites, the drowning of Pharaoh and his Egyptians; the Manna and the Quails that fell from Heaven, the flaming Mount, with the terrible Thunder, when God delivered the Law to Moses! what manner of people would you have been? what lives would you have led, after such sights, as all or any one of these? Suppose you had seen Christ in his state of Incarnation, in his examples of lowliness, meekness, contempt of all the glory and vanities of this world, and had heard him speak his heavenly Doctrine with power and authority, as never man spake. Suppose you had seen him heal the blind, ⟨p. 29⟩the lame, the sick, and raise the dead; and seen him after all this made the scorn of sinners, buffeted, spit upon, when they had crowned him with thorns, and arrayed him gorgeously in scorn; and then nailed between malefactors on a Cross, and pierced, and die a shameful death, and this for such as you and I. Suppose you had seen the Sun darkened without any eclipse, the Veil of the Temple rent, the Earth tremble; the Angels terrifying the Keepers, and Christ rise again! Suppose you had been among the Disciples when he appeared in the midst of them, and with Thomas, had put your fingers into his wounded side: and had seen him walking on the waters, and at last seen him ascending up to Heaven. Suppose you had seen when the Holy Ghost came down on the Disciples in the similitude of cloven tongues, and had heard them speak in the various languages of the Nations, and seen the variety of Miracles, by which they convinced the unbelieving world: What persons would you have been? what lives would you have led, if you had been eye-witnesses of all these things? And do you not profess to believe all this? and that these things are as certain truths, as if you had seen them? why then doth not your belief affect you, or command you more?

2. Suppose you had seen the matters revealed in the Gospel to your faith, as to what is past and done already? If you had seen the deluge and the Ark, and preservation of one righteous family: the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from Heaven; and the saving of Lot whose righte soul was grieved at their sins, and hunted after as a prey to their ungodly rage, because he would have hindered them from transgressing? Suppose you had seen the opening of the Red Sea, the passage of the Israelites, the drowning of Pharaoh and his Aegyptians; the Manna and the Qails that fell from Heaven, the flaming Mount, with the terrible Thunder, when God delivered the Law to Moses! what manner of people would you have been? what lives would you have led, after such sights, as all or any one of these? Suppose you had seen Christ in his state of Incarnation, in his examples of lowliness, meekness, contempt of all the glory and vanities of this world, and had heard him speak his heavenly Doctrine with power and authority, as never man spake. Suppose you had seen him heal the blind,