That Jesus is the true Messias. -Proving that this is the very Christ. That Jesus is the true Messias. But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews, which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is That Jesus is the true Messias. -Proving that Jesus is the Christ. That Jesus is the true Messias. And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. 297. For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. But we preach Christ crucified. But we preach Christ crucified. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also re- ceived, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of And he said unto them, Thus it is written; and thus it be- hoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand The Reasonableness and Equity of a future Judgment. I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the BARROW, b VOL. V. The Certainty and Circumstances of a future Judgment from Divine Revelation. testify that it is he which was ordained by God to be Judge of quick and dead. 544. and in Jesus Christ, &c. SERMON XIII. OF THE TRUTH AND DIVINITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. Eph. i. 13. In whom ye also (trusted), having heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. THAT our religion in gross is true and agreeable SERM. to reason, is a ground upon which the truth of its XIII. single doctrines and articles of faith doth lean; it is therefore requisite that it first be well supported, or that we be thoroughly assured thereof. Being therefore engaged at other times to discourse upon the particular points of Christian doctrine, which suppose this general one; I shall take occasion collaterally in these exercises to insist upon this subject ; supposing in those, what in these we shall endeavour to prove; so both avoiding there such grand digressions, or the treating upon matters not directly incident; and supplying here what seems necessary or useful there to the confirmation of our faith. Now in the words I did now read, St. Paul styles the Christian doctrine (and in many other places of scripture it is also so called) the word of truth, (that BARROW, VOL. V. B λις ή . SERM. is, a most true doctrine,) and the gospel of our salXIII. vation, (that is, a message brought from heaven by our Saviour and his apostles; in which the ways and means of attaining salvation, (that is, of that best happiness which we are capable of,) the overtures thereof from God, and the conditions in order thereto required from us, are declared.) And that we have reason to entertain it as such, I shall im mediately address myself to shew. Μη εξέταζι, , It was anciently objected by Celsus and other adαλλά πίςευso. Orig. i. versaries of our religion, that Christianity did exact Β: 39: from men ψιλής και άλογον πίστιν, α bare groundless po 282, .; faith ; did impose vóuous avanodeiktous, laws uncapable wayat of proof, (that is, as to the goodness and reasonable ness of them ;) did inculcate this rule, My egétage, aana Móvov tioteve, Do not examine or discuss, but only believe; that it debarred inquiries and debates about truth, slighted the use and improvement of reason, rejected human learning and wisdom, enjoining men to swallow its dictates, without chewing, or any previous examination concerning the reason and truth of them. The ground of this accusation was surely a great mistake, arising from their not distinguishing that belief, whereby we embrace Christianity itself in gross, from that belief, whereby in consequence to the former we assent to the particular doctrines thereof: especially to such as concern matters supernatural, or exceeding the reach of our natural understanding to penetrate or comprehend. For as to the first kind, that belief whereby we embrace Christianity itself, as true in the gross; I say, it is nowise required upon such terms; our religion doth not obtrude itself upon men in the dark, it doth not bid men to put |
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