The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury: From the Second Ecumenical Council to the End of the Fourth Century |
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... miracles , after which miracles ceased ; that there have been at all times true miracles and false miracles , true accounts and false accounts ; that no autho- ritative guide is supplied to us for drawing the line between the two ; that ...
... miracles , after which miracles ceased ; that there have been at all times true miracles and false miracles , true accounts and false accounts ; that no autho- ritative guide is supplied to us for drawing the line between the two ; that ...
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... miracles generally in the ages after the Apostles , though there may be and is a certain antecedent improbability in particular miracles . There is no presumption against Ecclesiastical miracles generally , because inspiration has stood ...
... miracles generally in the ages after the Apostles , though there may be and is a certain antecedent improbability in particular miracles . There is no presumption against Ecclesiastical miracles generally , because inspiration has stood ...
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... miracles any where or at any period ; the question rather is whether He will work them ; the question simply is whether the Ecclesiastical miracles are pro- bable , not whether there is a general presumption against them all as miracles ...
... miracles any where or at any period ; the question rather is whether He will work them ; the question simply is whether the Ecclesiastical miracles are pro- bable , not whether there is a general presumption against them all as miracles ...
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... miracles , is led to propose a certain test of true miracles founded on their pro- fessed object , and suggests that this will furnish us with means of drawing the line of supernatural agency in the early Church . " If [ the final cause ...
... miracles , is led to propose a certain test of true miracles founded on their pro- fessed object , and suggests that this will furnish us with means of drawing the line of supernatural agency in the early Church . " If [ the final cause ...
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... miracles of the second and third centuries have a character less clearly supernatural and an evidence less cogent than those of the New Testament , and that the fourth and fifth are ages of credulity and superstition , " and the miracles ...
... miracles of the second and third centuries have a character less clearly supernatural and an evidence less cogent than those of the New Testament , and that the fourth and fifth are ages of credulity and superstition , " and the miracles ...
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Page cxcviii - When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Page xcii - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions ; and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit.
Page clxxiii - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page lxxxi - Solomon's porch ; and of the rest durst no man join himself to them. But the people magnified them ; and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women ; insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Page c - For there is no man that doeth any 'thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
Page lxxxi - For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them : and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city.
Page cxciii - IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams...
Page lvii - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul; So that from his body were brought unto the sick, handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Page xx - I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures.
Page xcvi - And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.