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But there is certainly very little ground for such a cavil, since it appears from the sacred text itself, that our Saviour did both promise to send his Spirit to bring ail thing! to their remembrance, whatsoever he had said unta them, and also to lead them into all truth, and instruct them in things in which he himself had not fully instructed them during his personal ministry, because they were not then able to bear them, John xiv. 2$. xvi. 12, 13, 14. And whereas he urgeth, that " if we do not acknowledge the system of belief and prac" tice which Jesus left behind him to be complete and perfect, " we must be reduced to the greatest absurdity, and to little " less than blasphemy; and that it must be otherwise said, " that he executed his commission imperfectly f." It will appear, if the matter be rightly considered, that it was no way » Bolinjbroke's Works, vol. iv. p. 390. f Ibid. p. 315, 316. dishonourable to out Saviour, that there were several things more explicitly revealed to the apostles afterwards, than was •done during his personal ministry. Some things were not proper to be openly and distinctly published till after Christ's resurrection : ijor were his disciples fully prepared for receiving them before that time. He himself told them before his passion, that there-were some things they did not know then, but should know afterwards. And the revelation published by his apostles, according to his commission, and under the influence of his Spirit, and by power derived from him, was as truly tlie revelation of Jesus Christ, as St Paul calls it, as that which he delivered himself in the days of his personal ministry ; nor did it really differ from it in any article, but more fully explained several things, than was seasonable, or coulu be conveniently done before. So that Christ was faithful to the commission he had received, and the whole was conducted with admirable wisdom, and condescending goodness.