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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70241	The vanity of man at his best estate, and the vanity of Dives, his desire when at his worst viz. to have a preacher sent from the dead to his fathers house / discoursed of in two sermons, the first before the University of Oxon, the other at Ayno in Northamptonshire, at the anniversary for the foundation of the free-school there, by T.H., B.D., sometime rector of Souldern in Oxfordshire.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1676 (1676)	Wing H2325; ESTC R38792	37,311	52

matter speaks aloud to us not to make enquiry of the dead either what we are to do in this or to expect in the other world I shall adde one testimony more in this matter and that is of St Paul Galath 1.8 9. where he saith that if we or any Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed where he prefers the Doctrine of the Gospel of Christ preached by him and which was taken out of and proved by Moses and the prophets before the testimony of an Angel from heaven And if so then surely the Testimony of Moses and the Prophets is more to be attended unto then that of one that should rise from the dead And here we may appeal to our own reason and to the reason of other men and say Whether it be more reasonable to believe God or man judge ye God The living God speaking to us in his holy word by Moses and the prophets or to a man suppose it was Lazarus from the dead Before God gave his people his minde and will in writing he taught them by dreams and visions of the night by the ministry of Angels by signes and wonders but now he hath revealed his whole counsel necessary to our salvation and committed it to writing now that he hath sealed up the Canon of the Old Testarnent by Ezra and of the New by St John's Revelation and now that he hath ratifyed the truth of both by his broad seal of miracles let not the Church nor any particular person look after one from the dead or for signes wonders and miracles His holy word teacheth us that now God commandeth every man every where to repent because he hath appointed a day to judge the world in righteousnesse by Jesus Christ whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given sufficient proof or evidence to all men in that he raised him from the dead Acts. 17.30 31. I confesse it hath been the guise and fashion of the world to look after and long for Miracles Show us a signe and what signe shewest thou said the Jews to Christ notwithstanding all the wonders and miracles that he had wrought amongst them yea the devil himself tempted our blessed Saviour in the wildernesse to shew a signe to work a miracle if thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread But our Lord and Saviour would not gratifie the devils curiosity nor work a wonder at his beck or desire he would not cast such a pearl before such a swine besides had our Saviour wrought that miracle in that place and at that time the devil might have denyed it or if not our Saviours enemies possibly might have been tempted by the devil to blaspheme as some times they did afterwards and to say he had done it by the power of the devil We are apt to think that if one came from the dead or that we saw signes and wonders then we should believe then we should repent but alas alas how often hath God shewed signes and wrought wonders for nations and persons and yet they have remained impenitent and disobedient Pharaoh and the Egyptians had many signes and wonders wrought before their eyes and yet their foolish hearts were hardened yea such madnesse was in their hearts that they pursued Israel into the Red sea and were drowned in the sea The Israelites for whose sake God wrought such wonders in Egypt and in the Red-sea and whom God led and fed by a Miracle in the Wildernesse with Angels food bread from heaven and with water out of the rock fourty years yet they murmured and tempted God and many a time rebelled they against his word so that six hundred thousand of them their carcases fell in the wildernesse and they could not enter into the Land of Canaan because of unbelief Well come we to their children whom God Miraculously preserved brought into and settled in the good land of Canaan and we shall finde that they or their children soon forget God their Saviour whereas God the Lord of hosts did several times fight for Israel with his hosts his Angels his stars his clouds against their enemies yet ever and anon we finde them even fighting against God when our Saviour Christ came into the world entred upon his publique Ministry and office of Mediatour he manifested forth his glory many ways in sundry miracles wrought by him in the sight of the Jews and were they kindly and savingly wrought upon were they warned were they perswaded did they the body of them all repent do we not rather finde that when our Saviour raised Lazarus from the dead and by reason thereof many believed on him that therefore their chief priests an Rulers the pharisees sought to kill Christ and Lazarus both yea when they had crucified the Lord of glory and he arose from the dead the third day the greatest Miracle that ever the sun saw did they thereupon believe and repent no no they seek to hide this miracle and they give money to the souldiers to say his disciples came by night and stole him away Of old Balaam was stopped by an Angel from heaven and God opened the mouth of his Ass so that he spake with mans voyce and reproved the madnesse of the prophet yet Balaam was not converted King Jeroboams hand was withered and restored by a miracle and yet he continued his false worship at Dan and Bethel and would not suffer the people to worship at Jerusalem King Ahab saw that great wonder fire came from heaven to consume the sacrifice at the prayers of Elijah and yet for ought we know was never savingly wrought upon Yea that which is a wonder to think of it good men who have seen wonders and miracles have not been so good as they should be but after those things have for a time turned afide like a broken bow Good King Hezekiah that was cured of the plague by direction of the Prophet after he had received the sentence of death in himself yet his heart was lifted up and he did not render unto the Lord answerable to what he had received Ionah the prophet was miraculously preserved in the belly of the whale three days and three nights and yet afterwards was so peevish and passionate as to tell God to his face that he did well to be angry even unto death Go we higher Noah was saved by Miracle in an Ark without sayls Rudders Anchors or Pilot when the world was drowned and yet was overtaken soon after with drunkennesse Lut was saved miraculously from fire when Sodons and Gomorrah and the other Cities were burned and yet it was not long before he became guilty of drunkennesse and incest By these instances national and personal we may conclude that signes wonders and miracles are not always such certain powerful and effectual means to bring sinners to repentance or to make bad men good or good men better as men