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

3. But besides this, they had also the supernatural testimony of God: For the Apostles converts received the same spirit as they had themselves: And though the miracles of other persons were not so numerous as those of the Apostles; yet the persons were many thousands more that wrought them: All this is asserted in the Scripture it self; as Gal. 3.3, 4. ⟨p. 128⟩1 Cor. 14. & 12. and many places: And he that should have told them falsely that they themselves had the spirit of extraordinary gifts and miracles, would hardly have been believed by them. And all this also the following Ages have themselves asserted unto us.

3. But besides this, they had also the supernatural testimony of God: For the Apostles converts received the same spirit as they had themselves: And though the miracles of other persons were not so numerous as those of the Apostles; yet the persons were many thousands more that wrought them: All this is asserted in the Scripture it self; as Gal. 3.3, 4. ⟨p. 128⟩1 Cor. 14. & 12. and many places: And he that should have told them falsly that they themselves had the spirit of extraordinary gifts and miracles, would hardly have been believed by them. And all this also the following Ages have themselves asserted unto us.

The question then which remaineth is, How we receive all this infallibly from the subsequent Ages or Churches to this day? The answer to which is, still by the same way, with yet greater advantages in some respects, though less in others. As 1. We have the humane testimony of all our ancestors, and of many of our enemies. 2. We have greater evidence of natural certainty, that they could not possibly meet or plot together to deceive us. 3. We have still the supernatural divine attestation (though rarely of miracles, yet) of those more necessary and noble operations of the Spirit, in the sanctification of all true Believers; which Spirit accompanieth and worketh by the doctrine which from our ancestors we have received.