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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76490	A discourse upon the powers of the world to come, or, The miraculous powers of the Gospel, and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and their certain return at the kingdom of Christ in its succession / by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1694 (1694)	Wing B2138; ESTC R205346	146,914	191

c. If any Doctrines then be not according to wh●● God hath before spoken in his word and to those main points of the Love and Fear of God and the Rewards he hath pro●●●●ed and Punishments he hath Threatened Although such a Contrary Doctrin be Confirm'd with such Appearances of a sign or wonder as cannot be D●stinguished by very Judicious observers from a Real Miracle This will not Justify the person that turns aside from the Commands or Doctrines that are indeed from God which ought to be weighed by all the Just Rules and Characters of Trying truth According to this Grand caution thus Given by God The Jews might have been excused in Refusing to withdraw from the Mosaic Law or to receive Christ as the Messiah and Son of God notwithstanding all the Miracles wrought by our Lord and by his Apostles if the Doctrine and Action and high Acknowledgment of God of All holiness if the Excellencies alwaies most Bright and shining from our Lord c. If the Diviness of all his Preach●ng His clearest dicovery of eternal Life and everlasting Punishment upon all unholyness had not vindicated and demonstrated it self to be of God Christ therefore says as before observed John 15. 22. If I had not come and spoken to them they had no sin but now they have no Cloake for their sin and so John 14. 10. Christ saith The words I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me He doth the works Certainly our Lord Implyes His very Doctrine was all Miracle All works the works of his Father as well as the very Miracles or Works strictly so called Thus Christ Argues from the Direct ●endency of all his whole Ministry and design so manifestly tending to the Ruine of Sathans Kingdom that he could not be suspected of Acting by way of Collusion with Sathan except Sathan could be supposed to be Divided against Himself and to Destroy his own Kingdom Else the Pretence had been plausible if all the Doctrine of Christ had not been Infinitely Holy and Infinitely pure Destructive to Satan and his Kingdom Matt. 12. Mark 3. an● Luke 11. The Apostle Petet Comparing the Miraculous vision of our Lords Transfiguration Prefers the Word of Prophecy as more sure 2. Pet. 1. 19. And the Apostle Paul makes the powerful Preaching of the Truths of the Gospel more Convincing of the mighty presence of God in Church Assemblies then Miracles or miraculous Gifts of Tongues were 1 Cor. 14. 26. For hereby saith he the Secrets of mens Hearts will be Discovered and they will Fall down and worship God and say He is among his Servants of a Truth From all this It is most manifest The Confirmation of the Truths o● the Gospel is not the Adequate end of Miracles or a Reason of them Commensurate to them Because they do not sufficiently serve that end nor answer that Reason If therefore They had been supremely to that end or Reason of them There is no doubt They should to the very utmost and last point of effect have produced that Confirmation For such mighty works of God Cannot be once supposed to be in vain as they must be if they do not Attain their End or are-not Principal in Attaining it As it hath been made out They are not CHAP. V. Wherein the Grand Scope of the Discourse is Endeavoured to be truly Fixed viz. That the Chief and Adequate End and Reason of Mirac●●s is That they are Portions and Pledges Peices and Parcels and Portions of the Kingdom of Christ or of the World to Come and to Bring it in at Last I Come now to that Part of this Discourse wherein as in a Center All the lines of it meet that is to shew that the Principal and most Adequate Reason of Miracles is that They Bear a strict close and Inseparable Relation to that world to come whereof saith the Apostle we speak And because This world is to come and they have not yet Introduced it Therefore they can be no more then Parts or Peices and Portions and not the entire sum Pawns and Pledges and not the very Kingdom not that very world it self And in the attaining of this It will be found That whatever account can be given of Miracles as if this moving mens Hearts Home to God were an end or Reason of them or as if the Confirmation of the Doctrine of the Gospel were an end by it self worthy of them even That account will be Found to Lye in their Relation Those very effects have to that world to come as will be seen in the Particulars I shall now present in order Argum. 1. If there be such a World to Come as the Scripture hath abundantly declared there is then every thing wherein the Present State of the World is lifted up above it self or the present Course of setled Nature which being by Immediate Power and not in the ordinary manner of Vpholding and merciful Governing the World we therefore call Miracle is in its very own Nature a Pledg and Assurance of such a Restitu●ion or New Creation or W●rld to Come as we speak of and is a part or portion of it For it is a Specimen and a little part of what we shall see in full and whole And on the other side if there by any thing done in Judgment in such Extraord●nary and Miraculous manner breaking the Frame of the Present State either in any more Essential Settlement or in the general Course of Gods Government of the World it is an Assurance to us that he ●ill Dissolve the present World to make room for a new World and to bring in Vniversal Judgment upon the Vngodly on whi●h account all Extraordinary Judgments are delivered in the Language of the general Judgment as is most observable in all the Phrase wherein such Judgments are expressed in the Prophetical Parts of the Old and New Testament which are not a high Rh●torical or Poetical Language or manner of Expression but have real Reference to what shall be Fulfill'd in the very Letter at last Now in the presenting Particulars and Arguing upon them If the things spoken seem to be new or singular I would only Desire the Noble Temper of the Bereans to search the Scripture whether these things be so or not 1. I would begin more orderly and in the Foundation Jesus Christ is the Second Adam Lord of the World to Come and un●●r Him the present World is put in regard of supreme Ad●●nistration of the very Things that are not put under him in the ●ense They shall be put under him I know we will All allow This great Mediator the Redeemer of the World Jesus Christ The Messiah the Prince of the King● of the Earth the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords He into whose Hand the Father hath committed all Judgment to Execute it even because he is the Son of Man that His coming into the World was supreme Miracle This none of