Six Discourses on the Miracles of our Saviour Part 8

[118] Illa Mulier curvata intelligitur figurare Ecclesiam, quam _in s.e.xta Mundi aetate_ a Captivitate Diaboli Jesus liberabit. _In Quaest._ 25. _Dialog._ LXV _Quaest._

[119] Vidi Angelum habentem Clarem & Catenam ad ligandum draconem.--_In s.e.xto Annorum Millenario_ haec Res agitur. _De Civit.

Dei. L._ XX. _Ch._ vii.

[120] _Revel. Ch._ xx. _v._ 2.

[121] Propter Infinitatem Annorum Mille Annos dixit. _In Serm. de Paenitentia._

[122] Diaboli Forman a.s.sumimus--Leonis Personam induimus & Draconis,--quando crudeles & callidi sumus. _Origen. in Luc. Hom._ viii.

[123] _Mark Ch._ viii. _v._ 33.

[124] Defence of Christianity, _p._ 8.

[125] Doctioribus inter Judaeos notissimum est,--quod Moses qui primus fuit Salvator Israelis etiam in omni Vita & Operibus suis fuerit Typus & Figura ultimi Redemptoris. _Christian. Meyer de Gen. Christi_, p.

145. Judaei Veteres expectabant similem aegyptiacae Liberationem, ut scilicet Pharaoh & omnis ejus Exercitus qui per 430 Annos Populum Dei Captivum tenuit, in Mari Rubro submersus est; sic etiam Romani qui eodem Annorum Numero Judaeos possessuri, Ultione Domini deleantur.

_Sancti Hieron. in Joel. Ch._ v.

[126] See the Life of _William Lilly_.

[127] See Dr. _Hammond_ on the Place.

[128] Percontando de Viro, Occasionem cepit occulta revelandi. _Sancti Cyril. Alex. in Loc._

[129] _John Ch._ x. _v._ 24.

[130] Forta.s.se verum non erat, _Judaeos c.u.m Samaritanis Commmercium non habere_,--ac ne illud quidem verum, _neque Haustorium habes, & Puteus altus est_,--forta.s.se etiam neque illud, _quod Jacob ex Puteo biberit, & filii ejus, & Pecora_ ejus. _Origen. in Loc._

[131] Plena Mysteriis & gravida Sacramentis. _Sancti August. in Johan.

Ch._ iv.

[132] Evangelica Sacramenta in Domini nostri Jesu Christi dictis factisque signata non omnibus patent, & ea nonnulli minus diligenter, minusque sobrie interpretando, afferunt plerumque pro salute Perniciem, & pro Cognitione Veritatis Errorem, inter quae illud est Sacramentum quod Scriptum est de hac Samaritana, _&c._ _In Quaest._ 63, _de_ Lx.x.xiii. _Quest._

[133] O? e? t?p? pa??? ??? ?a? d? a????at?? ?p?de???e??. _In Loc.

Johan._

[134] Illa Mulier Typum gerebat Ecclesiae, quae ventura erat ex Gentibus--Ecclesiae non justificatae, sed justificandae. _Sancti. August.

in Loc. Johan._

[135] Tunc fatigatur Christus, quando nullam Virtutem in Populo suo recognoscit. _Sancti August. in Serm._ xciii. _Appen._

[136] Hora s.e.xta id est, s.e.xta aetate Generis Humani. _Sancti August.

in Quaest._ 64. lx.x.xiii. _Quaest._

[137] Puteus est Divina Scriptura, scientia scatens, ut aqua, Cujus putei Profunditas sunt plena Mysteriis Symbola. _In Theoph. Ceram Homil._ x.x.xviii. _de Samaritana_.

[138] Lex secundum Literam est aqua amara. _Hieronym. in Ezekiel. Ch._ xlvii. Qui bibit ex hac aqua sitiet rursus, id est, qui partic.i.p.at profunditatem humanae sapientiae, prudentesque Rationes, receptis Intelligentiis judicio suo inventis, tamen rursus secundo cogitans, denuo dubitabit de his in quibus requieverat. _Origen. in Loc. Johan._

[139] _In Loc.u.m Johan. Evang._

[140] Quinque enim Viros habuisti, & nunc quem habes _non est Vir tuus_. Sed non sunt haec carnabiter accipienda, ne huic ipsi Mulieri Samaritanae similes videamur,--Per quinque Viros, quinque Libros Mosis Nonnulli accipiunt--sed quinque Viri intelliguntur quinque Corporis sensus. Et quia naturales sunt ipsi Sensus, qui aetatem primam regunt, recte dic.u.n.tur Mariti. _In Quaest._ 64. _de_ lx.x.xiii. _Quaest._

[141] _Et nunc quem habes non est Vir tuus_; Quia non est in te (Ecclesia) Spiritus qui intelligat Deum, c.u.m quo legitimum potes habere conjugium; sed Error Diaboli potius dominatur, qui te adulterina Contaminatione corrumpit. _Venerab. Bedae in Loc.u.m._

[142] Magna quidem acta sunt Sacramenta, sed augustum Tempus est, ut omnia pertractentur. _In Serm._ xci. _Sect._ 2.

[143] _In his Dissertation on the Blessing of_ Judah.

[144] Ut Lex Umbram continet futurorum bonorum, quae declarantur ab ea Lege; sic etiam Evangelium, quod vel a quibusque vulgaribus intelligi existimatur, Umbram docet Mysteriorum Christi. _In Praefat. ad Johan.

Evang._

A THIRD DISCOURSE ON THE MIRACLES OF OUR _SAVIOUR_,

In VIEW of the Present Controversy between INFIDELS and APOSTATES.

_Litteratos gravissimo Somno stertere convincam_, HIERON.

The Third Edition.

By THO. WOOLSTON, B.D. sometime Fellow of _Sidney-College_ in _Cambridge_.

_LONDON_:

Printed for the Author, and Sold by him next door to the _Star_, in _Aldermanbury_, and by the Booksellers of _London_, and _Westminster_. 1728.

[Price One Shilling.]

[Ill.u.s.tration]

TO THE

Right Reverend Father in G.o.d

_RICHARD_,

Lord Bishop of St. DAVID'S.

MY LORD,

_In your_ Sermon _before the_ Societies _for Reformation of Manners, you are pleased to give a Character of my former_ Discourses on Christ's Miracles; _which, tho' I don't at all like, yet I thank you for the Favour of taking Notice of them; a_ Favour _that I have long'd for from a considerable_ Clergyman; _but could not flatter myself with the Hopes of receiving it from so great a_ Prelate.

_Some of the inferior_ Clergy, _whom I despise for their Ignorance and Malice, have before in their Conversation represented me as an_ impious _and_ blasphemous Infidel; _and I have met with Affronts for it: But I never imagin'd that any, much less your_ Lordship, _would have ventur'd such a Character of me from the_ Press, _for fear of a Resentment, which would not be agreeable. Surely your_ Lordship _has not read my_ Discourses, _but has taken a Report of them upon Trust, from some Ecclesiastical_ Noodle; _or you could never have been so much mistaken about my Design in them_.