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

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, Exod. 19. by which means the Law was Authorized, and owned as proceeding from God: Now it was not needful this should be repeated in every Age, as long as a certain Report and Records of it might convey it to their Ears. ⟨p. 114⟩In the setting up a new Law, signs and wonders are necessary, to declare it to be of God; but when the Church is in the possession of it, these cease. So in the Christian Church, when the Gospel was first set on foot, it was then confirmed with signs and wonders, but now they are unnecessary. See the Law and Gospel compared, Heb. 2. 2, 3, 4. For if the word spoken by Angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him, God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the holy Ghost, according to his own will.

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, Exod. 19. by which means the Law was Authorized, and owned as proceeding from God: Now it was not needful this should be repeated in every Age, as long as a certain Report and Records of it might convey it to their Ears. ⟨p. 114⟩