C a n P.2. Epiflle to theTheffalorsiánr. V E x.9. 149 3 A third fort, when what are vfuall workes of Na- ture, are produced without the principles and helpes of Nature, fuppofe when a feller curable by Nature, is cured with the word or touch ofourSauiour, without any helpe of medicine, See Thom. Cont, gent. lib. 3. cap. tot. 102, & c. z. Can Antichrift,Satan, any creature work« a miracle ? Refp. CArira they mnay; miracula they cannot, ifyee take them in arickt fenfe. i. Its Gods k prerogatiue royall, Pf. 72.18. 2.They are diuine Teftimonies, Heb.z.4. 3.Signes of Apofales, 2 Or. 12.12. 4. Beleeuetnee for the workes fake, rob .10.38 Reafons Philofophically Theologicall,See in T homm, ; gash fupra. 3. What is then to be thought of theft lignes and won- ders which Antichria workes by helpe of Satan ? Refp. What ? But as Paul Riles them : that they are Q, rez ÿ cud xs : vonders of fallbood ; not onely in-refpeCt of their end, becaufe they tend to confirme errour ; but in refpe6t of their forme; wanting what fhould conflitute them in the of fence and nature of miracles, properly fo called. Sometimes the i. Senfe is deceiued ; as in thofe wrought by Pharao his Magitians. z. Sometimes the phantafie deluded. 3. Sometimes,fecret workes of n atuve offered to fenfe of ignorant beholders: the Lampe in Venus Tem- ple burning fo many yeeres, to Plinie was no other, but the Rone efphefiuu Pet on fire. 4. Sometimes things adtiue applyed to paffiue, and fo effedts wonderfull produ- ced. Philofopher is none amonga men, fo exadt as the di- uelL What through the acuity ofvnderaandinghaturall,and notices of nature receiued in Creation, referued fnce his fall; and what thorow obferuation and experience of fo many hundreds, fore thoufands ofyeeres fnce his firR be- ing; he is, to our wonder, skilfull in the whole courfe of nature ; And by that skill produceth Rrange and extraor- dinary effects. Not all preaigious and illuforie,but trite in genre Rerum,things being fuch as they are feene; yet falfe allgenere miraculorii properly fo called,for fuch are works L 3 excee- kPfa1.86.dr r3S du áufiin de . uitat. Psi. rc
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