item: #1 of 6
          id: A26209
      author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
       title: Digitus dei or God appearing in his wonderfull works For the conuiction of nullifidians.
        date: 1676
       words: 22977
      flesch: 56
     summary: How comes it then to pass , that Christ is so generally held and believed to have been taken in body into Heaven ? How happned it , that in thase criticall times , when men made such scruples of admitting any thing which seemed to carry impossibility with it , they believed things notwithstanding , even without the vouching of miracles , which were extreamly incredible in themselves ? Will they , perchance , say , that they therefore believed them , because they were credible ? why then do they themselves refuse to believe them . But that only , which in our present case ( concerning things in themselves immediatly of an inferiour degree ) I think reasonable to demand , and necessary for the persons we are arguing with to grant , is , not to deny human or historicall faith , at least to matters of fact proposed with so many circumstances of Unquestionable credibility , that peremptorily to deny them , without positive and clear evidence against them , would make the world believe their whole soules were turn'd fancy , or will , and that they had renounced all right to the noblest part of man , Reason and Vnderstanding .
    keywords: augustine; body; cause; eyes; faith; god; good; holy; life; man; men; miracles; nature; person; place; present; reason; relation; saint; self; things; time; world
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A28442
      author: Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.
       title: Miracles, no violations of the lavvs of nature
        date: 1683
       words: 11279
      flesch: 52
     summary: But because Men following their own natural Reason , are wont to doubt , whether what is by a Prophet deliver'd for the Command of God , be truely the Command of God , or not ; Miracles in the sacred Scriptures are call'd Signs , as signifying the Will of God : as also in Ethnick Writers , for the same Reason , they are call'd Ostenta and Portenta , as shewing or portending the divine Will concerning Things to come . For , since the vertue and power of Nature is the same with the vertue and power of God ; and her Laws and Rules , his Decrees ( as was just now prov'd : ) we are obliged to believe , that the power of Nature is infinite , and her Laws so made , as to extend their force to all things conceiv'd by the divine Understanding .
    keywords: causes; god; hath; know; laws; men; miracles; nature; opinions; order; power; providence; reason; scripture; things; work
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A29780
      author: Browne, Thomas, 1654?-1741.
       title: Miracles, work's above and contrary to nature, or, An answer to a late translation out of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus, Mr. Hobbs's Leviathan, &c. published to undermine the truth and authority of miracles, Scripture, and religion, in a treatise entituled, Miracles no violation of the laws of nature.
        date: 1683
       words: 21644
      flesch: 65
     summary: For the Scripture , that it does not appear that they are recorded for Miracles there , because the Scripture immediately refers effects purely Natural to God , and makes no mention of the train of second causes subservient to God in their production : the design of the sacred Writers , when they speak of natural things , being not to instruct us in the knowledg of Nature by giving us a Philosophical account of their mediate causes , but to excite in us Piety and Devotion , by working in our minds a true sense of the Power and Providence of Almighty God , to which all things owe their original . The utmost therefore that Design will oblige them to , in this regard , is to make no mention of the Train of second Causes in the Productions of Nature ( which effectually answers the first part of their Design ) and to ascribe all Effects to God as their Author ( which as fully answers the second ) and nothing of all this amounts to a Relation of the Effects of Nature for Miracles , as will appear immediately .
    keywords: causes; contrary; divine; effects; god; laws; miracles; nature; order; power; scripture; thing; truth; work
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A30470
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: The story of Jetzer, taken out of Dr. G. Burnet's letters with a collection of miracles wrought by popish saints, during their lives, and after their deaths, out of their own authours, for information of all true-hearted Protestants : with a prefatory discourse, declaring the impossibility and folly of such vain impostures.
        date: 1689
       words: 24923
      flesch: 52
     summary: St. Ositha's Head being cut off by a Danish Pirate , at the very place a clear Fountain broke forth , which cured several kinds of Diseases ; moreover as soon as her head was off , the Body presently rose up , and taking up the Head in the Hands , by the conduct of Angels walked firmly the streight way to the Church of St. Peter and Paul , about a quarter of a Mile distant from the place of her suffering ; and when it was come there , it knocked at the door with the bloudy Hands , as desiring it might be opened , and thereon left marks of bloud ; having done this , it fell there down to the ground . though she was utterly ignorant of what had been done , she presently recovered a perfect health of Body and Mind , and without delay rising up , she her self came to doe service to the Bishop , being the first of the whole Family which presented to him a Cup of refection Cr. pag.
    keywords: bishop; body; child; church; day; father; fire; fryar; god; head; holy; ignatius; king; life; man; men; miracles; people; place; saint; self; thou; time; virgin; woman
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A30890
      author: Barclay, John, 1582-1621.
       title: John Barclay his vindication of the intercession of saints, the veneration of relicks and miracles, against the sectaries of the times Book II. Chap. VII. Englished by a person of quality. With allowance.
        date: 1688
       words: 7530
      flesch: 71
     summary: Why therefore should our Age be thought destitute of Miracles ? What use was there then for them , which may not happen now ? What Scripture , what word of GOD banishes from us these VVorks of the Almighty ? If thou have regard to those frequent , and , as I may say , daily Miracles , by which the Church was in her beginning asserted , they were already , as St. Augustin confesses , ceas'd in his time ; but as for such , as are more seldom , though no less certain , neither was that Age , nor is ours , without them . It has ever from the most Antient Times , been the Custom of the Orthodox Church , to request of the Blessed Spirits , the Holy Martyrs , and all others , whom the Majesty of Miracles manifested to be in the Fruition of GOD and Heavenly Joyes , that they would Pray for us to our Lord.
    keywords: angel; christ; church; god; holy; john; miracles; prayers; reliques; saints; thou
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: A45118
      author: Arch, Susannah.
       title: A relation of the miraculous cure of Susannah Arch of a leprosy and ptysick, wherewith for some years past she had been sorely afflicted.
        date: 1695
       words: 4903
      flesch: 74
     summary: Then was I help'd to plead with God , saying , Lord , if I have true Faith , if thou lovest me , if I have an Interest in Christ , take away this Distemper before I die . And at another time that Text , John 11. 40. Said I not unto thee , that if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the Glory of God ?
    keywords: christ; cure; distemper; god; leprosy; lord; text; works
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