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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART II. › Chapter 4 › Section 4
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Answ. No: for Divine power being properly the attendant of Divine Revelation, if it should be annexed to Diabolical delusions, it would be a sufficient excuse to the world for their believing those delusions. And if Miracles should not be a sufficient seal to prove the Authority of the witness to be Divine, then is there nothing in the world sufficient; and so our Faith will be quite overthrown.
Answ. No: for Divine power being properly the attendant of Divine Revelation, if it should be annexed to Diabolicall delusions, it would be a sufficient excuse to the world for their believing those delusions. And if Miracles should not be a sufficient seal to prove the Authority of the witness to be Divine, then is there nothing in the world sufficient; and so our Faith will be quite overthrown.
Object. But however, Miracles will no more prove Christ to be the Son of God, then they will prove Moses, Elijah, or Elisha to be the Son of God: for they wrought Miracles as well as Christ.
Object. But however, Miracles will no more prove Christ to be the Son of God, then they will prove Moses, Elias, or Elisha to be the Son of God: for they wrought Miracles as well as Christ.
Answ. Miracles are Gods seal, not to extol the person that is instrumental, nor for his glory: but to extol God, and for his own Glory. God doth not entrust any creature with this seal so absolutely, as that they may use it when and in what case they please. If Moses or Elijah had affirmed themselves to be the sons of God, they could never have confirmed that affirmation with a Miracle: for God would not have sealed to a lye. Christs power of working Miracles did not immediately prove him to be the Christ. But it immediately proved his Testimony to be Divine, and that Testimony spoke his nature and office. So that the power of Miracles in the Prophets and Apostles, was not to