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Sect. 15. The like I may say, of most of the rest, which I doubt, I have been too large in proving in all the six, or seven, or eight Books before named. I thought also, to have distinctly answered th• Printed Pinners-Hall Lecture, but he that cann•• find it more than fully answered, in the foresaid Books, either never read them, or Answers to such a man, will be vain.

And I am sorry, that the same hand in another Lecture, elsewhere publisheth, that [That any are brought to believe in Jesus, is as great a Miracle, as the Resurrection of Christ from the dead] p. 223. And after [There is not a greater Instance of the Power of God in the whole World, than this, in bringing over the heart of a sinner to believe in Christ.]

It grieveth my Soul to think what Scandals are thus given by good Men to Papists, Infidels and prejudiced Scorners, and what work they will make ⟨p. 63⟩with it. No doubt but Faith is a great and difficult Work, and wrought by Almighty Power: For God hath no other Power, but Omnipotency: omnis Dei Potentia est Omnipotentia, quia Infinita. Gods Power is his Essence: But the Instances and Demonstrations of it, are as various as the Effects. Your Finger or Tongue, moveth not, but by Omnipotency: But every Motion or Fly, is not as great an Instance or Demonstration of Power, as Faith is. Nor Faith so great an Instance as the making of Angels, Men, Heaven and Earth, Sun, Moon, and Stars, their Natures, Motion and Order: Divines have hitherto taught, that Power is eminently manifested in Creation and Natural Preservation, tho' with Wisdom and L•ve; and Wisdom Eminently manifested in Government, and Love in Glorifying (tho' they were conjunct in each) Man cannot work Miracles, and that so great. And I do not believe that God damneth all unbelievers, as for want of an Act as great as the motion of the Sun, or making the World.