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A04166	Christs ansvver vnto Iohns question: or, An introduction to the knowledge of Iesus Christ, and him crucified Deliuered in certaine sermons in the famous towne of New-castle vpon Tine. By Thomas Iackson, Dr. of Diuinitie, vicar of Saint Nicolas Church there, and fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 14306; ESTC S107447	127,240	218

circumstances as by direct types or sutable representations Whether it bee this way or that way fore-shaddowed the case is all one as it was with that picture-maker who being requested to paint a man and an horse ouerthrowne in battaile painted an horse in a full careere with a man on his backe and being challenged for not making such a picture as he was requested to doe hee willed the party to turne the vpside of the Table downewards and hee had as faire and exact a picture of an horse a man ouerthrowne as hee could make him Of this kinde of types was the brazen Serpent it could not be any direct type of CHRIST albeit the lifting vp of a brazen Serpent was a reall type or representation of our Sauiours future exaltation vpon the Crosse. And so was Hezekiahs demolishing of the brazen Serpent a reall prophesie or representation of our Sauiours bruising the old Serpents head or rather of his vtter destruction of his Kingdome which shall be accomplished at the last day But the full explication of this type we must deferre vntill wee come to vnfold the mysteries of Iesus Christ and him crucified Let this suffice at this time for the first generall poynt to wit how our faith in Iesus Christ is to bee grounded or confirmed wherein hath beene shewed first That all beliefe must be grounded on the Word of GOD. Secondly That wee beleeue these Bookes of the Old and New Testament to be the Word of GOD because they containe as well such predictions or Prophesies as reall prefigurations or types of Christ and his Kingdome as none but the onely wise immortall God could fore-shaddow 34. The vse of this Doctrine hitherto deliuered is the same which shall be the end of all my meditations vpon this portion of Scripture The poynts which I specially aymed at in the choyce of it were these first to breed or beget a full perswasion in you that these Bookes of the Old and New Testament are sufficient in themselues to make you wise vnto saluation that the truth of mysteries contayned in them may bee sufficiently manifested by their owne light without the infallible proposall or authoritie of any visible Church on earth to giue them lustre or make them visible Their light is of it selfe sufficient to enable you to discerne all truthes expedient for your saluation and amongst other truthes to discerne which of all the visible Churches vpon earth is the true Church of God And this they sufficiently teach without any such notes or properties as the Romish Church would obtrude vpon you If in the Writings of our owne friends I meane the Pastors or Teachers of reformed Churches you light vpon some notes of the true Church as preaching of the Word and administration the of Sacraments you must conceiue their meaning to be no more but this That these two conspicuous and visible notes are essentially and necessarily required to the constitution of a visible Church They are not they cannot be any infallible notes for discerning which visible Church is true which false which hereticall which orthodoxall no more than to haue publique meetings or a forme of gouernement established by Law or Charter can bee a true note for discerning which is the best or ancientest Corporation in this Kingdome Now to haue publique meetings or a forme of gouernement established by Law or Charter can bee no note or difference for distinguishing one Corporation from another because without these no assembly of men how great soeuer can bee truely termed a Corporation And that wherein all agree can be no note whereby to difference or distinguish one from another or to determine which is the best which is the worst Wherefore if the question were Which is the best or ancientest Corporation in this Kingdome This question could not otherwise be resolued than by inspectiō of their seuerall Lawes or Charters Or in case their Charters were the same that Corporation would be the best which did rightliest vse practice or enioy the benefits or priuiledges of the same or like Charter or which did liue as well in publique as in priuate in best conformity to their Lawes Now euery visible Church is a Society or Corporation Ecclesiastique And no assembly or multitude of men how great soeuer albeit they priuately professe the same faith can truely be said to make one visible Society or Corporation Ecclesiastique vnlesse they haue their publique meetings to heare the Word of GOD preached or read vnto them vnlesse at such meetings they ioyne together in publique prayer and administration of the Sacraments Whence if the question be Of all such Assemblies Corporations or Societies Ecclesiastick as ioyne together in hearing the Word preached in cōmon Prayers in administration of the Sacraments that is Of all visible Churches which is the true Church of God There can bee no other possible satisfactory answer than this That is the true Church of God or orthodoxall visible Church whose Doctrine Prayers and manner of administring Sacraments is most conformable and agreeable to the fundamentall Charter which Charter is contained in the Bookes of the Old and new Testament So that all other points all markes and notes how many soeuer our Aduersaries make must be examined and tryed by this Rule Amongst other markes of the Church they make the gift of miracles to be one 35. Concerning miracles I haue not much to say beeing loth to put my sickle into another mans haruest from whom I hope you shall reape full satisfaction Onely this caueat I would commend vnto you which heeretofore I haue published That although it be granted that the Diuell by his owne power can worke no true miracle that is nothing that shall bee aboue the force or power of nature or contrary to it or it beeing granted likewise that God doth neuer lend the vse of his omnipotent power vnto Satan his angels or ministers to work any true miracle thereby to try the faith of Christians yet all this being granted in generall if we descend vnto particular wonders we must haue as great skill in the force and power of nature how farre it may extend as Satan hath Wee must bee as cunning in discouering his slightes iuglings or delusions as he is in iugling or deluding before we can be secure that hee cannot put one of the two iuggling trickes vpon vs. As first that he cannot make vs beleeue those wonders which we see effected to exceed the force or power of naturall causes when as in truth in deed they doe not or that hee cannot make vs beleeue that such wonders or miracles as indeed exceed the force of nature to bee wrought by him or his Instruments when as they are wrought by God himselfe for some other speciall end or purpose or for some other vse then he or his Instruments could referre them vnto The hailestones mentioned Ioshuah 10. vers 11. were aswell for their magnitude as for the manner