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A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend…
A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend Mr. John Baily [i.e., Bailey], comprised and expressed in a sermon, on the day of his funeral. Thursday. 16.d. 10.m. 1697. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two line epigram in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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like Jonah ▪ He was to Rise again, and the Gentiles were thereupon to come unto Repentance. All this was predicted of the Messiah; Well then, says the Christian; My Jesus is the Messiah, for in Him is all of this, gloriously come to pass!
like Jonah ▪ He was to Rise again, and the Gentiles were thereupon to come unto Repentance. All this was predicted of the Messiah; Well then, sayes the Christian; My Jesus is the Messiah, for in Him is all of this, gloriously come to pass!
Again; A Christian is convinced, That the Miracles wrought by our JESUS, could be wrought by none but the True Messiah. It is said of our JESUS, The Son of David, in Rom. 1.4. He was Declared to be the Son of God with power. The Miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ, are called, Powers; and they may w•ll be called so, inasmuch as they are Expressive of Supernatural Powers over the Creation of God. Now, when ⟨p. 72⟩a Christian sees the Miracles done by our Blessed JESUS, he is convinced of our Lords Divinity, and convinced of our Lords Messiah-ship, immediately; and he cries out, Oh! This my JESUS, is the Son of God! The Christian is very sure, That our JESUS, wrought such Miracles, as are in the Gospel Related of Him: Stupendous Miracles wherein, The Blind Received their Sight, the Lame Walked, the Lepers were Cleansed, the Deaf heard, the Devils that were the Instruments of Inflicting such Calamities were cast out, and the Dead Raised up The Witnesses of those Miracles are Incontestable. The Obstinate and Enchanted Jews themselves do in their Talmuds own those Miracles. But then the Christian is very sure, That God would never have permitted such Miracles to be wrought by our JESUS, if He had not been the Messiah. Indeed, a False Prophet may have a Sign, accompanying of Him. Yet, such is the Compassion of the Good God unto the World, that something or other always adhaeres to the Miracles of a Lie, whereby the Delusion may be detected. Whereas the Miracles of our JESUS were such, that the more men Examine them, the more proofs will appear, of their being the Seals of the Great God, unto the Truth of all that He Declared. Our JESUS came, the Christian sees him coming, a man of Universal Holiness, and full of Endeavours to promote all that is Holy and Just and Good. He