The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

There were learned and unlearned Jews and Gentiles, rich and poor, men and women, some that followed Christ, and some (as Paul) that perhaps never saw him: and for all these to be at once inspired by the holy Ghost, and thenceforth unanimously to accord and concur in the same doctrine and work, doth show a supernatural cause.¹

There were learned and unlearned Jews and Gentils, rich and poor, men and women, some that followed Christ, and some (as Paul) that perhaps never saw him: and for all these to be at once inspired by the holy Ghost, and thenceforth unanimously to accord and concur in the same doctrine and work, doth shew a supernatural cause.¹

1. 1Rationem de occulto Dei consil•o quaerere, nil aliud est quam contra ejus consilium superbire. Gregor. Hom.

§. 27. 9. There were dissentions upon many accidents, and some of them to the utmost distance, which would certainly have detected the fallacy, if there had been any such, in the matters of fact, so easily detected.

1. In Christ's own family there was a Judas, who betrayed him for money: This Judas was one that had followed Christ, and seen his Miracles, and had been sent out to preach, and wrought miracles himself. If there had been any collusion in all this, what likelier man was there in the world to have detected it? yea, and his conscience would never have accused, but justified him, he need not to have gone and hanged or precipitated himself, and said, I have sinned in betraying the innocent blood? The Pharisees who hired him to betray his Master, might, by money and authority,