r 48 C H A P.2. An $,klJof1t10x van the feca4 V E R.9. Augufl.dc vii. litas, Cred, ad Honoratuzs c.i6 g Iof11.Io.IS.,13. Ifai 38.8. places of Scripture are many : fee H.6.2.ß.. 2 Car. 12.`12. 6- alibi: And yet that ,r«on,me thinkes is equiuolent : and compare Rom.Is.I9. you may imagine here iv dttx' c^1, thus ye;read there ev d`uvát.cii Pníwv z TerZ-rrrv,in the power Genes and wonders. Conceiue not, as idle Schoolemen add poflillers, reali difference betwixt them, inch as to di. uerfìfie them into f uerali fyecie.r: the thing is the fame,the names onely feuerall : powers, they are called by Metony- mic of the efficient, becaufe they ifhue from power extra - ordinarie : Signs, for their vie, becaufe they ferued to lignifie and Peale vp the truth of doctrine to which they were applied : wonders, for their effe5t, becaufe they bred in the beholders maruell fometimes no lefTe then alto - niílaing. I. What is a miracle? a. Can Antichrill, can Satan worke it? Refp.,The name is fometimes vied largely,fome. times firicktly,largely taken, it founds to f Auflin, any worke whatfoeuer hard and vnufuall, exceeding the ex- pee'tation or ability of the beholder, and breeding him wonder. The Latine name extends it felfe to all fuch vnu fuall accidents or acts ; miraculum a mirando ; becaufe, thorough ignorance of caufes,beholders wonder.So to the Gmple, Eclipfe of the Swine feemes an halfe miracle, fuch wonder it breedes in him; which the Afironomer beholds and foretells without wonder. Stricktly,they denote workesextraordinaryrunning in- to the fcnfe, exceeding the ability of all fecond caufes : of thefeThom& obferues three kindes.or degrees rather. i. Some fuch as by created virtue, fuch as hee lignifies vnder the name of nature, can neuer be produced ; as to flop- the Surine in his courfe and g make him (landfill; as vnder Iofhuah, or to mare himgee 6acke; the figne to Hezekiah. 2. Others, which nature can worke, but not in that or- -der that they are wrought ; as, that man or other Animals fhould Iine, fee, heare, walke, as a worke ofnature,hut to hue after death, to fee after i blindneffe, &c. this is a worke no leffe then miraculous. 3. A
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