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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 2:4

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Hebrews2:4

4 God also bearing them witness , both with signs and wonders , and with divers miracles , and gifts of the holy Ghost according to his own will .

Here is a further Aggravation of the neglect of the Gospel of Salvation from God's testifying to it by the Works and Gifts of his Holy Spirit: Such sin grievously, and will receive a proportionable Punishment; For God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit co-testifie with all those Instruments confirming the Gospel of Salvation, with a Testimony peculiarly fitted to it; yet in this joynt-witnessing God is the highest, and [non-Latin text not transcribed] only to be believed for himself.

By Works above Nature's reach, signifying God's being in, and approving the Gospel-Law, which they attend, Mark 16.17. more numerous and glorious were these than they which confirmed the Law, Acts 2.22, 43. and 4.30. such strange Works as raised Admiration in all that saw them, and are prodigious to those that hear of them, or read them, Rom. 15.19.

Miraculous Works, such as are compassed only by a Divine supernatural Power, and variety of these, as healing all Diseases, raising the Dead, ejecting Devils, Mark 16.17, 18. Works of as great Mercy, as Wisdom or Power.

As Gifts of Tongues, Prophecies, &c. Rom. 12.6 to 9. comp. 1 Cor. 12.7, 8, 9, 10. such as Nature could not furnish any with, but the Redeemer did by his Spirit, communicating them to various persons of divers kinds and indifferent degrees: From, by, and for himself he giveth out these wonderful Works; his Will the only Rule for Time, Persons, Manner and Measure of their Distribution, allotting all their Portion. Rom. 12.3. 1 Cor. 7.17. and 12.4, 7, 11, 18. Ephes. 4.7.

Marginal references: Mark 16.20. Acts 14.3.; Or, distributions.

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