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Friendship; but particularly for the Be-
nefit of Publishing these pious Remains
of my dear Friend and Patron: Whom
I greatly Admired, Loved, and Reve-
renced; and to whofe Memory I there- fore Dedicate them, with an Heart full of Gratitude and Refpect.
Tho, Moore.
THE
CONTENTS
OF THE
First VOLUME.
SERMON I.
THE Publick Manner in which the Gospel was at first pro-
mulged, one confiderable Argument
of its Divine Authority.
ACTS xxvi. 26.
This Thing was not done in a Corner.
The frequent Attempts of Infidelity
make it neceffary for the Ministers
of the Gospel to apologize for it, as
if it were in its Infant State.
vii
I. The fair, open, and illustrious Man-
ner in which it was promulged, a
ftrong Argument of the Truth of it.
5
Our Saviour opened his Commiffion
without any Partisans or Follow-
ers, and lived afterwards chiefly in
Towns and Cities.
His Miracles performed often upon the most folemn and remarkable
Occafions.
7
7,8
As his Life was publick, fo was his
Death and Resurrection.
9,10
II. Reflections that arife from hence,
are,
1. The great Advantage which the
Christian Religion has on this Ac-
count over all other Religions. I
The Credibility of Numa's Confe-
rences with a Goddefs, and of Ma-
homet's receiving Part of the Alcoran
from the Angel Gabriel, depends
folely on their own Testimony:
Neither of them wrought Miracles
to
to confirm their Do&trine. 11, 12
The Miracles faid to be wrought in
the East and West Indies reported
by Persons so much later than the
Facts themselves, that we can have
no Rational Affurance of them. 12
And the Truth of the Jewish Revela- tion depends, as the Infidels object, on the Testimony of Friends only.
13
2. The inexcufable and incurable
Obftinacy of thofe, who, not-
withstanding the open incontestable
Manner, in which the Divine Au-
thority of the Gofpel was mani-
fested; continue ftill to ftand out
against it. 14-16
3. The Vanity of Pretences to Mira-
cles in the Romish Communion;
which have been generally done pri-
vately, in Religious Houses and
Places of Retirement; or in remote
Regions of the World, whither no
one will go to difprove them; or
in fuperftitious Countries, where
no Man has Inclination or Leave
to difprove them.
20, 21
17, 18
The Vanity particularly of Transub-
ftantiation, the most abfurd Pre-
tence of all.
Private Visions and Illuminations, be-
ing a fort of Miracles transacted on-
ly between God and the Souls of
those that pretend to them, can ne-
ver be made a Foundation for the
Reception of any Doctrine. 21, 22
5. A Doctrine once established upon
incontestable Miracles, needs not
to be confirmed by new ones in
After-Ages. 24, 25
6. The more any Doctrine affects Se-
crecy, the more Reason we have to
fufpect it.
The Church of Rome, that prefcribes
implicit Belief, and the Enthufiafts
that fet up their Doctrine of the
Dictates of the Spirit, both to be
suspected on this Account, 27, 28
The Conduct of the Church of Eng-
land in this Particular. 28,29
7. Our Practice of the Gofpel ought
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