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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1750 Original Publisher: L. Davis Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Evidence, Advantages, and Influences of our Lord's Refur- reftion. SERMON II. i C O R. xv. 17. If Chr'ift be not raifed your Faith is va'm. OF all the Proofs we have of the divine Authority of our mo'ft holy Religion, the plaineft and moft obvious to every Underftanding is that of Miracles ; and of all thefe the moft remarkable and moft neceflary was that of our Blefled Lord's Re- furrection from the Dead. This He Himfelf often foretold; and therefore He could not have appeared to be a true Prophet, if His Predidtions had not proved true. To this the Apoftles appeal as the Foundation of all their Doctrines, and affirm, that He was declared, or proved to be the Son of imith Powera j by this fingle Faft of Rom. i. 4. the Refurreftionfrom the Dead. He claimed the Appellation of the Son of God as His Due, on account of His Divine Birth and Miffion, and was put to death for that Pretence ; and God's raifing Him from the Grave after He had been three Days in it, was therefore undeniably proving to the World that He was that Son of God; and if the Son of God, then an infallible Teacher; and if an infallible Teacher, then muft His Doctrines be the Doctrines of God, and His Words the Words of eternal Life. Thus does the Evidence of this important Article extend its Force to all others; and therefore St. Paul in the Text makes all the Hopes and Expectations of the Church of Chrifl abfolutely to depend upon it. After having given an Account (in the Beginning of this Chapter) of thofe infallible Signs and Proofs, whereby it was evident to a Demonftration, that our Lord was rif
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