A sermon, preached on the death of Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon : before a respectable audience, in the Methodist Chapel, Blackburn, on Sunday, September 30th, 1798. With enlargements, and illustrated with notes / by T. Wood.

  • Wood, Thomas, -1826
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[1798]
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Credit: A sermon, preached on the death of Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon : before a respectable audience, in the Methodist Chapel, Blackburn, on Sunday, September 30th, 1798. With enlargements, and illustrated with notes / by T. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for our belief of his dodlrine : for if he was declared to be the Son of God with power, by his refurre&ion from the dead, as the Apodle afferts he was (c), there can be no room left for any rational men to doubt of the truth of whatever he came to teach. Thefe mi¬ racles wrought by Chrid, were fuch attentions from God, as plainly confirmed the doarine he preached. For it is impoffible for the God of truth, toatteft a falfehood, or to fupport a forgery by his almighty Power. Would he concur, by the power of mira¬ cles, with an impodure, and own a perfon who only abufed him, and deceived mankind ? We cannot fup- pofe fo great an abfurdity, and what is evidently in¬ confident with the perfe&ions of God’s nature, and with his moral government of the world. The illudrious triumph God gave the gofpel at its fird publication, is worthy of our attention and faith. The Apodles were honoured with amazing fuccefs, though they had no fecular terrors to affright them, no fecular rewards to bribe them, no dazzling eloquence to enchant them : On the contrary, the want of thefe were pleaded againft them. Yet their tedimony was received, and their converts were fo M{y *atisfied with the evidence, which the Apodles gave them of their divine million, that they encoun¬ tered great perfection, and cheerfully ventured edate, liberty, and life itfelf, on their perfuadon of the truth of the fa&s they afferted. And their con-' verts were not a few ; James fpeaks of the myriads of believing Jews-(d). And we read of -Chridian churches (0 Rom. i. 4. G) Ads xxi. 20.
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