Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

2. It will appear that the Scriptures are the word of God from the marvellous power and efficacy of them. Such a power and Spirit hath and doth accompany the preaching […] the Gospel, which in the Scriptures is contained, as do […] ⟨p. 146⟩evidence them to be from God alone: we read 1 Pet. 1. 12. of them which preached the Gospel with the holy Ghost sent down from Heaven. This hath been, this is unto this day.

2. It will appear that the Scriptures are the word of God from the marvellous power and efficacy of them. Such a power and Spirit hath and doth accompany the preaching 〈…〉 the Gospel, which in the Scriptures is contained, as do 〈…〉 ⟨p. 146⟩evidence them to be from God alone: we read 1 Pet. 1. 12. of them which preached the Gospel with the holy Ghost sent down from Heaven. This hath been, this is unto this day.

1. The wonderful power of the Gospel in the first preaching of it, doth evince that it was from God, when so great a part of the world was in so short a time subdued unto the obedience thereof; when the Gospel prevailed not only amongst many of the Jews after Christ Ascension, and the effusion of the holy Ghost more largely upon the Apostles, so that three thousand people were converted to the faith by one Sermon of the Apostle Peter. Acts 2. 41. and five thousand more, Act. 4. 4. but especially, in that it prevailed amongst the Gentiles and Heathens, and so many Churches of Christ were planted and brought, not by carnal weapons but by Spiritual, to the subjection and obedience of the Lord Jesus. This power will appear to have been from God, if we consider,