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A28272	No reason to desire new revelations a sermon preach'd at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, October 7th, 1700, being the seventh for the year 1700, of the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. / by Ofspring Blackall ...	Blackall, Offspring, 1654-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing B3047; ESTC R18677	36,532	66

no less glorified in our Destruction Seeing therefore whether you Believe or whether you do not Believe God will be neither a Gainer nor a Loser but the Profit or the Damage will be all your own it is plainly your Interest as well as your Duty to give Credit to such Evidence as really and in it self is Credible and such I hope I have already shewn that to be which is given us of the Truth of Christianity and not to set your selves to cavil at it and to study Exceptions to it not to take upon you to prescribe to God Almighty and boldly to tell him what sort of Evidence he must give you or else you will not be satisfied Do not then stand in your own Light do not bring Destruction upon your selves when you may avoid it but give Ear to what Moses and the Prophets and Christ and his Apostles speak to you in the Holy Scriptures and hear them without Prejudice with a Mind ready to hearken to Reason and resolved to be persuaded by it and then what they will say to you will be abundantly sufficient to satisfie you for they say as much in this Case or more as by the common Voice and Reason of all Mankind is judged to be sufficient in all other Cases of the like Nature But if you are resolved not to be persuaded so long as there is any Possibility of Doubt or Scruple left if you are resolv'd not to Believe unless you may have just that very Evidence given you that you your selves are pleas'd to require if you will boldly and arrogantly take upon you to teach God as if he knew it not what Evidence he ought to give Men of the Truth of Religion and are resolved to find or make Exceptions against any other Look you to it For if God has done enough already he is under no manner of Obligation to do more more did I say Nay he needed not to have done so much for it was meer Grace and Favour in God that he has done so much as he has done that he has made us any Promises at all and given us any Assurance of the Truth of them And therefore for what he has done we ought to be thankful and not to find fault with him that he has done no more Such Impudence and Sauciness as this for I can call it by no better a Name from a Man to his Maker from a mean inconsiderable Creature to the Great Lord of Heaven and Earth is I 'm sure no proper Qualification to merit extraordinary and peculiar Favours For as our Saviour says to some in a like Case to some who formerly made the like unreasonable Demand that you now do Matth. 12.39 Mark 8.12 It is an Evil and Adulterous Generation that seeketh after a Sign and therefore there shall no Sign be given Verily I say unto you there shall no Sign be given to this Generation Let us then be content with that assurance which God has given us of the Truth of Religion for greater than this we shall not have 'till it be too late Let us thankfully accept of and readily comply with this and not expect or wait for more for God will not gratifie us in our unreasonable Desire He is resolved to deal with us as with Men to incline not to determine our Choice to persuade not to force us to be Happy And having already given us the Standing Revelation of the Gospel which is sufficient both to instruct and convince us and having prov'd the truth of this sufficiently to us he will not be making new Revelations or sending more Prophets Divinely inspir'd or working fresh Miracles every Day He has done enough already to satisfie our sober Judgments and he will not do every thing that we can think of to gratifie our wild and extravagant Fancies And there is the less Reason that he should do so because if the Ordinary Means which he uses for our Conversion do not succeed the Fault lies wholly in us And therefore 't is highly probable so certain that it need not be tried that any other means proper for God to use to reclaim us would be alike unsuccessful If they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be persuaded tho' one rose from the Dead This is the last Reply that Abraham makes to the Rich Man's Request and it was the third of those three Points which I at first propounded to speak to but which I must reserve for the Subject of my next Discourse FINIS NEW REVELATIONS Would probably be UNSUCCESFUL A SERMON Preach'd at the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH of St. Paul November 4th 1700. BEING The Eighth for the Year 1700 of the LECTURE Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq By OFSPRING BLACKALL D. D. Rector of St. Mary Aldermary and Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by J. Leake for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1700. St. LUKE XVI 29 30 31. Abraham saith unto him They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them And he said Nay father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead IN Discoursing on these Words I have already done these two Things I. I have shewn that the present Standing Revelation of God's Will in the Holy Scripture is abundantly sufficient to persuade Men to Repentance if they are not unreasonably blind and obstinate This is intimated in the first Verse of the Text They have Moses and the Prophets Christ and his Apostles let them hear them And II. I have likewise shewn that having already such good Grounds of Faith such full Directions for Practice and such strong Motives to Repentance it is unreasonable to desire more This was what the Rich Man had done at the 27th and 28th Verses and which he still continues to do in the 2d Verse of the Text even after Abraham had told him that the Standing Revelation of God's Will in the Holy Scripture was sufficient Nay Father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent He says it positively they will repent He speaks it as a thing that no Doubt could be made of In Answer to which therefore Abraham tells him in the last Verse of the Text that that which he thought so very certain was not so much as probable If they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be persuaded tho' one rose from the dead And this was the third Point I propounded to speak to in discoursing on these Words viz. III. To shew that in Case God should condescend to gratifie Men in this unreasonable Desire working every Day new Miracles before their Eyes or sending their deceased Friends to them from the Dead to assure them of a Future State and to warn them to prepare for it 't is highly probable that