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A29780	Browne, Thomas, 1654?-1741.	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.	1683		.xml	application/xml	21644	787	65	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 .	cache/A29780.xml	txt/A29780.txt
