Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

1. Not by requiring new grounds of Faith, when God hath given sufficient already; not by cherishing Scepticism and Irresolution in point of Religion, till new Nuncios come from Heaven, with a power ⟨p. 113⟩to work Miracles, and to be endowed with extraordinary Gifts, as the seekers do. Many waver in Religion, would fain see an Apparition, and have some extraordinary satisfaction, which God would not give them upon every trifling occasion. The Pharisees must have a sign from Heaven: The Papists would have the Protestant Teachers show their Commission by Miracles: The Jews would believe if Christ came down from the Cross. To suspend our Faith, till God give us our own terms, is to tempt God; and to disposes you of this conceit, consider

1. Not by requiring new grounds of Faith, when God hath given sufficient already; not by cherishing Scepticisme and Irresolution in point of Religion, till new Nuncios come from Heaven, with a power ⟨p. 113⟩to work Miracles, and to be endowed with extraordinary Gifts, as the seekers do. Many waver in Religion, would fain see an Apparition, and have some extraordinary satisfaction, which God would not give them upon every trifling occasion. The Pharisees must have a fign from Heaven: The Papists would have the Protestant Teachers shew their Commission by Miracles: The Iews would believe if Christ came down from the Cross. To suspend our Faith, till God give us our own terms, is to tempt God; and to disposses you of this conceit, consider

1. Signs and Wonders done in one Age and Time for the confirmation of the true Religion, should suffice all Ages and Times afterward; and it is a tempting God to ask more signs and wonders, for the confirmation of that Truth, which is sufficiently confirmed already, if there be a good and safe Tradition of these things to us. The giving of the Law was attended with thunderings and lightnings, and the sound of a terrible Trumpet,