7. THat when Miracles are wrought, yet a Pretender may worke a Miracle for the contrary, like the Sorcerers of Aegypt against Moses; and Antichrist is rather spoken to come with Signes and Wonders of the two then Christ; so that there shall be a losse to any that thinke to beleeve meerly by a Miracle, the Spirit being only that which must make us beleeve, beyond all power of Miracle, which can give out its power but upon the sence at the farthest, being meerly outward, and visible.
8. That the Scriptures of the Gospel, or New Testament, are* 1.1 of such a divine, and even Spirituall glory in the letter, as no other word. There is a power to discover the reasons, and secrets of the heart, which the reason and heart of man witnesseth unto; there is a power to convince, and advise, to terrifie, and comfort; cleerly, undeniably, and experimentally knowne.
9. The Scriptures we have, as they are, doe make a discovery* 1.2 of such a way of religions Reason, as was never yet in any age at∣tained unto; for the men of purest reason, as the old Philoso∣phers, never attained further then the knowledge of some things infinite, which they did not know; a Religion of Morall righte∣ousnesse and purity, and some Sacrifices of attonement, &c. and there is not any Religion in the world, Jewish or Turkish, but they are made up of carnall principles, and are founded upon reason and nature; but this Gospel Religion, hath opened a new