10. THat the Scriptures, or Gospel of the New Testament, being a many hundred yeares old, as from the Apostles even in that originall we have them, no very materiall difference is to be found, albeit the Copies have passed through the greatest Apostacy, God restraining Antichrists power to cor∣rupt them materially, in the originall, to advantage their Here∣sies and corruptions; which very constant preservation of truth, in the very midst of the enemies of truth, is both a constant and standing Miracle of it selfe; and so we need not stay for a Mini∣stry with Miracle, seeing we have a word with Miracle, which in its matter, subject, power, speaking of God, of his Son, God and Man, of his Spirit, the actor in man, from both, by way of out∣ward ordinances, of the depths, windings, and workings of rea∣son, &c. and is of as much efficacy to perswade as any thing else we can have; and though there be not such pouring out of Spi∣rit, and such gifts as beleevers may and shall have, yet all belee∣vers ought to practice so farre of the outward ordinances, as is cleerly revealed; which conviction of his I suppose is sufficient to disswade any rationall man from thinking, that either Mira∣cles, or new gifts of Tongues, is now requisite for the gathering the Church of Christ out of Antichristianisme, as there was in the Apostles time out of Judisme and Heathenisme.
Thus have I (by Gods assistance) confuted the tenents of the Atheists, Anti-scripturians, Papists, Pellagians, Armenians, An∣tinomians,