Such is your course in telling the Jews of the Authority of your Church, and your Credo thereupon, which cannot be supposed to have any existence in rerum natura, unless it be first supposed that their Church was failed, which supposal that it was not, is the sole foundation of their ⟨p. 369⟩objection. What end you can propose herein, but to expose your self and your profession unto their scorn and contempt, I know not. Sir, the Lord Christ confirmed himself to be the Son of God, and Saviour of the world by the Miracles which he wrought; and the Doctrine which he taught was testified to be Divine by signs and express words from Heaven. He proved it also by the Testimonies out of the Law and Prophets, all which was confirmed by his Resurrection from the dead. This coming of the promised Messiah, the work that he was to perform, and the characteristical [Greek or Hebrew] of him, in application unto the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the Apostles and Evangelists proved out of the Scripture, to the conviction and conversion of thousands of the Jews, and the confusion of the rest. And if you know not that the Ancients Fathers and learned men of succeeding Ages, have undeniably proved against the Jews out the Scripture of the Old Testament, and by the Testimony thereof, that the promised Messiah was to be God and man in one Person, that he was to come at the time of the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh, that the work which he was to perform was the very same and no other then what was wrought and accomplished by him, with all the other important concernments of his Person and office, so that they have nothing left to countenance them in their obstinacy, but mere senseless trifles, you are exceedingly unmeet to make use of their objections, or the condition of the controversy between them and Christians. For what you add in reference unto my self, I shall need only to mind you that the Question is not about any Personal ability of mine to satisfy a Jew, which whatever it be, when I have a mind to increase it, ⟨p. 370⟩for somewhat that I know of, and which I have learned out of their writings, I will not come unto you for assistance;
Such is your course in telling the Jews of the Authority of your Church, and your Credo thereupon, which cannot be supposed to have any existence in rerum natura, unless it be first supposed that their Church was failed, which supposal that it was not, is the sole foundation of their ⟨p. 369⟩objection. What end you can propose herein, but to expose your self and your profession unto their scorn and contempt, I know not. Sir, the Lord Christ confirmed himself to be the Son of God, and Saviour of the world by the Miracles which he wrought; and the Doctrine which he taught was testified to be Divine by signs and express words from Heaven. He proved it also by the Testimonies out of the Law and Prophets, all which was confirmed by his Resurrection from the dead. This coming of the promised Messiah, the work that he was to perform, and the characteristical 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 of him, in application unto the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the Apostles and Evangelists proved out of the Scripture, to the conviction and conversion of thousands of the Jews, and the confusion of the rest. And if you know not that the Antients Fathers and learned men of succeeding Ages, have undenyably proved against the Jews out the Scripture of the Old Testament, and by the Testimony thereof, that the promised Messiah was to be God and man in one Person, that he was to come at the time of the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ in the flesh, that the work which he was to perform was the very same and no other then what was wrought and accomplished by him, with all the other important concernments of his Person and office, so that they have nothing left to countenance them in their obstinacy, but meer senseless trifles, you are exceedingly unmeet to make use of their objections, or the condition of the controversie between them and Christians. For what you add in reference unto my self, I shall need only to mind you that the Question is not about any Personal ability of mine to satisfie a Jew, which whatever it be, when I have a mind to encrease it, ⟨p. 370⟩for somewhat that I know of, and which I have learned out of their writings, I will not come unto you for assistance;
