SERMON XVII.

That Jesus is the true Messias.

ACTS ix. 22.

-Proving that this is the very Christ.

SERMON XVIII.

That Jesus is the true Messias.

ACTS ix. 22.

But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded

the Jews, which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is

the very Christ.

125.

SERMON XIX.

That Jesus is the true Messias.

ACTS ix. 22.

-Proving that Jesus is the Christ.

One Lord.

90.

SERMON XX.

That Jesus is the true Messias.

37.

JOHN V.

And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne

witness of me.
175.

SERMON XXI.

JOHN i. 14.

And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten

of the Father.

229.

SERMON XXII.

EPH. iv. 5.

154.

SERMON XXIV.

The Incarnation of our Lord.

261.

SERMON XXIII.

The Incarnation of our Lord.

MATTH. i. 20.

For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

297.

MATT. i. 20.

For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

316.

SERMON XXVII.

1 COR. XV. 3.

For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also re-

ceived, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the

scriptures.

383.

SERMON XXVIII.

ACTS ii. 27.

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell.

SERMON XXIX.

ACTS i. 3.

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

God.
430.

414.

SERMON XXX.

LUKE Xxiv. 46.

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

day.
462.

SERMON XXXI.

MARK XVI. 19.

He was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand

of God.

481.

SERMON XXXII.

The Reasonableness and Equity of a future Judgment.

ECCLES. iii. 17.

I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the

wicked.

514.

BARROW, VOL. V.

b

SERMON XXXIII.

The Certainty and Circumstances of a future Judgment
from Divine Revelation.

ACTS x. 42.

And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to

testify that it is he which was ordained by God to be

Judge of quick and dead.

544.

And in Jesus Christ, &c.

In whom

SERMON XIII.

OF THE TRUTH AND DIVINITY OF THE
CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

EPH. i. 13.

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 there-
fore engaged at other times to discourse upon the
particular points of Christian doctrine, which sup-
pose this general one; I shall take occasion collate-
rally in these exercises to insist upon this subject;
supposing in those, what in these we shall endea-
vour 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

SERM. is, a most true doctrine,) and the gospel of our sal-
XIII. 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 over-
tures 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.

Μὴ ἐξέταζε,

ἀλλὰ πίςευ-

pag. 8,9

Orig. vi.

pag. 282.

Πίστευσον

λεις ἢ ἄπιθι.

It was anciently objected by Celsus and other ad-

Gov. Orig. i. versaries of our religion, that Christianity did exact

from men λ kai äλoyov Tíoτw, a bare groundless

faith; did impose vóμous avanodeíkтovs, laws uncapable

cativas - of proof, (that is, as to the goodness and reasonable-

ness of them ;) did inculcate this rule, My ¿érage, åλλà

μóvov TíσTEVE, 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 pre-

vious 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