A Dissertation On Miracles Containing An Examination of the Principles Advanced
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GOSPEL FULLY ATTESTED. 140 ceafed, hath it ever been in the power of the moft daring enthufiaft, to revive them any where in favour of a new fyftem ? Authentic miracles will, for a time, give a currency to counterfeits ; but as the former become lefs frequent, the latter become more fu- fpedled, till at length they are treated with general contempt, and difappear. The danger then is, left men, ever prone to ex- tremes, run to as great a pitch of incredu- lity, as formerly of credulity. Lazinefs...^ the true fource of both, always inclines us to admit or rejedl in the grofs^ without en- tering on the irkfome taik of confidering things in detail. In the firft inftance, knowing fome fuch events to be true, they admit all ^without examination ; in the fe- cond, knowing fome to be falfe, they reje^ all ^without examination. A procedure this, which, however excufable in the unthink- ing herd, is altogether unworthy a philo- fopher. But i^o The miracles of the Part II. But to return: It may be thought, that the claim to miracles in the early ages of the church, continued too long to be fole- ly fupported on the credit of thofe per- form'd by our Lord and his apoftles.
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