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The Grounds of
blind, hearing to the deaf, health to the fick,
without the ufe of any Medicine or natural
tjieans, that feem proper to cure thofe People ^
all which efFefts therefore muft needs proceed
from a fupernatural Power, and can be aftrib'd
to God only.
Tho' what has been faid may be thought fufficient,
yet to convince all Men more fully of the
fupernatural force and energy that was confpicuous
in Chrift's Miracles, I (hall add the following
confiderations
f/Vy?, That they were in a manner infinite for
number, fo that they cannot be particularly reckon'd
up -, for he went thro' all the Cities and
V'ilh^QSof fudaa^ curing all Difeafes, andheal'd
all that were pofiefs'd of the Devil : And the
Writers of his Life declare, that he wrought rpany
other Miracles befides thofe which are mention'd
in their Hiftory.
2d/y^ That they extended univerfally to all
forts of Creatures, over which he ftiew'd an abfolute
Dominion, by the miraculoos efFefts he
produced ^ as over Devils, by driving them out
of Men that were poflefs'd with them ^ over the
Winds and Seas, by allaying the Storm and Ternpeft
at hisComniand J
over the Fifhesand Loaves,
by multiplying a few ofthem to fuch a prodigious
quantity as was fufficient to feed five thoufand •,
over the Swine, by fuffcring the Devils to enter
into them, and drive them headlong into the Sea 5
over the Fig-tree, by blading it with his Word 5
over the Water, by changing it into Wine ^ over
all forts of Difeafes, by hpaljng of them ^ and
laftly, over Death it fclf, by laifing the dead to
life again.
^d/y^ The Miracles of Chrift produc'd fuch effefts
as were not tranfient but permanent :
For the
Dead