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3. That good which they had, was wrought only by some ⟨p. 154⟩•eraps or parcels of the same holy Truth that is contained in the Scriptures. And therefore even so much Truth among the Heathens as profited them to any Reformation, was the word of God, and owned by him.

3. That good which they had, was wrought only by some ⟨p. 154⟩•eraps or parcels of the same holy Truth that is contained in the Scriptures. And therefore even so much Truth among the Heathens as proficed them to any Reformation, was the word of God, and owned by him.

Quer. 6. Do you believe that Jesus Christ did rise again from the dead, or not? and that he and his Disciples did work those many uncontrolled Miracles, or not? If you do believe it, then what need you further testimony to prove the doctrine to be of God? or to prove that there is a Life to come? Shall the Captain of our Salvation himself Rise from the dead, and conquer death, and ascend up into Heaven, to show us that there is a Life to come, and yet will you not believe it? Or would God lend to any man his Power to confirm a false doctrine to the world? If so, then 1. It would be God himself that should mislead us: For it is he that worketh the Miracles, or granteth special Power to the instrument to do it. 2. Man should be unavoidably misled. For if a man rise from the Dead, and raise others, and give to thousands the gifts of Languages, healing, and the like, and all this have no greater contrary evidence from God of some contradiction or controlment, I am unavoidably deceived; and neither my greatest innocency, or diligence, or any other help from men, could possibly relieve me. And he that can believe that the Infinitely Powerful, Wise, and Good, is either necessitated or disposed to deceive the world, and Rule them by deceit and falsehood, and to lend his power to confirm a doctrine that he hateth, and is against himself, this man indeed believeth not that there is any God. 3. Even the Brutists themselves and all the Infidels with whom we talk, will confess that if they should see Christ Rise, or see such Miracles, they would believe: and therefore they do confess that they are cogent Evidence to those that know of them.