The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…

THE laudable Conversations of many of you, show, that you are not wholly v•id of Religion: B•t it's no thanks to your irreligious Doctrine. It is no wonder that such men would cast out Reason from Religion; for their Religion seemeth to be by mere instinct: But if it must be without Reason, it is hard that they will make it all against Reason. While Reason is essential to man, no wonder then if Religion meet with much Resistance; and if, as one of Mr. Crispe's Authors saith, (nigro Carbon notandus) That to cause one to believe in Christ, be as great a Miracle as Christ's Resurrection, and as great an Instance of Almightiness, as any Work that God hath made: No doubt, but it is a hard, and great, and special Work, and an effect of Omnipotency, or else it were no effect of God: For, omnis potentia est Dei est Omnipotentia. A Hand or tongue moveth not but by Omnipotency; but all that God doth, are not equal Instances or Demonstrations of Omnipotency; nor are they all Miracles, and as great Miracles as the Resurrection of Christ. Is not the Preaching of the Gospel a means of mens believing? And is that as great a Miracle as Christ's Resurrection, that is wrought by so rational a means, used by man? I am sure St. Paul used not so much to prove the Truth of Christianity from this Medium, [some believed it; ergo, it is true] as by the Resurrection of Christ: Nor is every Woman or Mans Belief as good a Proof that the Gospel is true: I would not have Infidels taught to say, If God damn me for not believing, it will be for not doing that which is as great a Miracle ⟨image 83⟩as Christ's Resurrection, and as great an Instance of Almighty Power, as the making of Sun and Moon, and of the World: Overdoing is undoing.

THE laudable Conversations of many of you, shew, that you are not wholly v•id of Religi•n: B•t it's no thanks to your irreligious Doctrine. It is no wonder that such men would cast out Reason from Religion; for their Religion seemeth to be by meer instinct: But if it must be without Reason, it is hard that they will make it all against Reason. While Reason is essential to man, no wonder then if Religion meet with much Resistance; and if, as one of Mr. Crispe's Authors saith, (nigro Carbone notandus) That to cause one to believe in Christ, be as great a Miracle as Christ's Resurrection, and as great an Instance of Almightiness, as any Work that God hath made: No doubt, but it is a hard, and great, and special Work, and an effect of Omnipotency, or else it were no effect of God: For, omnis potentia est Dei est Omnipotentia. A Hand or tongue moveth not but by Omnipotency; but all that God doth, are not equal Instances or Demonstrations of Omnipotency; nor are they all Miracles, and as great Miracles as the Resurrection of Christ. Is not the Preaching of the Gospel a means of mens believing? And is that as great a Miracle as Christ's Resurrection, that is wrought by so rational a means, used by man? I am sure St. Paul used not so much to prove the Truth of Christianity from this Medium, [some believed it; ergo, it is true] as by the Resurrection of Christ: Nor is every Woman or Mans Belief as good a Proof that the Gospel is true: I would not have Infidels taught to say, If God damn me for not believing, it will be for not doing that which is as great a Miracle