II. And that these were really Divine Attestations, I have fully proved in the Treatise. First, They are Divine Effects, and the Divine Vestigia or Image. Secondly, And such as none can do but God. None else can give that full Antecedent Testimony of Prophecy: None else could have done what Christ did; in his Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension: None could heal all Diseases, work all Miracles, raise the Dead with a word: None else could do what the Apostles ⟨p. 30⟩did; in Tongues, and Miracles, and wondrous gifts, and these wrought by so many, before so many, for so long a time. No other Doctrine could it self bear Gods Image of Power, Wisdom and Goodness so exactly, nor make such an Impress of the same Image on the souls of men: Nay though this same Doctrine by the Spirit of God be adopted to such an effect, yet would it not do it for want of Powerful application, if God by the same Spirit did not set it home: so that the sanctification and renovation of souls, is a Divine Attestation of this sacred Gospel. And besides all the past Testimonies (of Christs and his Apostles Miracles) here is a double Testimony from God still vouchsafed to all true Believers to the end of the world; The one is Gods Image on the holy Scriptures; The other is, The same Image by this Scripture (and the Spirit that indited it) printed on all true Christians souls. Divine, Power, Wisdom and Goodness, hath imprinted it self first upon the sacred word, or doctrine, and by that produceth unimitably, holy Life, ⟨p. 31⟩Light, and Love in holy souls. True Christians know this: They feel it: They profess it: They have this Spirit in them, illuminating their minds, sanctifying their wills, and quickening them to vital operation and execution; And this is Christs Advocate, and Witness still dwelling in all his members. I speak not of an immediate verbal or impulsive revelation in us, but of a Holy indwelling nature, principle, operation, conforming the soul to God, and proving us to bear his Image. This is Christs Witness in us, that He is Christ indeed and True; And this is Our Witness, that we are the Children of God: And it is our Inherent earnest and pledge, first fruits and foretasts of the glory which Christ hath purchased and promised. If you know no such thing in your self as this, you have resisted the Holy Ghost, or Quenched the Spirit.
II. And that these were really Divine Attestations, I have fully proved in the Treatise. First, They are Divine Effects, and the Divine Vestigia or Image. Secondly, And such as none can do but God. None else can give that full Antecedent Testimony of Prophesie: None else could have done what Christ did; in his Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension: None could heal all Diseases, work all Miracles, raise the Dead with a word: None else could do what the Apostles ⟨p. 30⟩did; in Tongues, and Miracles, and wonderous gifts, and these wrought by so many, before so many, for so long a time. No other Doctrine could it self bear Gods Image of Power, Wisdome and Goodness so exactly, nor make such an Impresse of the same Image on the souls of men: Nay though this same Doctrine by the Spirit of God be adopted to such an effect, yet would it not do it for want of Powerfull application, if God by the same Spirit did not set it home: so that the sanctification and renovation of souls, is a Divine Attestation of this sacred Gospel. And besides all the past Testimonies (of Christs and his Apostles Miracles) here is a double Testimony from God still vouchsafed to all true Believers to the end of the world; The one is Gods Image on the holy Scriptures; The other is, The same Image by this Scripture (and the Spirit that indited it) printed on all true Christians souls. Divine, Power, Wisdome and Goodness, hath imprinted it self first upon the sacred word, or doctrine, and by that produceth unimitably, holy Life, ⟨p. 31⟩Light, and Love in holy souls. True Christians know this: They feel it: They profess it: They have this Spirit in them, illuminating their minds, sanctifying their wills, and quickening them to vital operation and execution; And this is Christs Advocate, and Witness still dwelling in all his members. I speak not of an immediate verbal or impulsive revelation in us, but of a Holy indwelling nature, principle, operation, conforming the soul to God, and proving us to bear his Image. This is Christs Witness in us, that He is Christ indeed and True; And this is Our Witness, that we are the Children of God: And it is our Inherent earnest and pledge, first fruits and foretasts of the glory which Christ hath purchased and promised. If you know no such thing in your self as this, you have resisted the Holy Ghost, or Quenched the Spirit.
