This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... and the spiritual world is governed without a scheme (so to speak), by caprice, then the God of Nature appears to contradict the God of Grace. Spino/a has not failed to make the most of this argument; but he assails not the true Christian idea of a miracle, but one which he substitutes for it (Tract. Th?nl. Poltt. 6). ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... and the spiritual world is governed without a scheme (so to speak), by caprice, then the God of Nature appears to contradict the God of Grace. Spino/a has not failed to make the most of this argument; but he assails not the true Christian idea of a miracle, but one which he substitutes for it (Tract. Th?nl. Poltt. 6). Nor can the Christian miracles Is; regarded as cases in which the wonder depends on the anticipation only of some Law that is not now understood, but shall be so hereafter. In the first place many of them go beyond, in the amount of their operation, all the wildest hopes of the scientific discoverer. In the second place, the very conception of a miracle is vitiated by such an explanation. All distinction in kind between the man who is somewhat in advance of his age in physical knowledge, and the worker of minutes, would be taken away: and the miracles of one age, as the steamengine, the telegraph-wire, become the tools and toys of the next. It remains then that a miracle is to be regarded as the overruling of some physical Law by some higher law that, is brought in. We are invited in the Gospels to regard the miracles not as wonders, but as the wonderful acta of Jesus of Nazareth. They are identified with the work of redemption. There are even cautions against teaching them separately--against severing them from their connection with his work. Eye-witnesses of his miracles were strictly charged to make no report of them to others (Matt. ix. 30; Mark v. 43, vii. 36). And yet when John the Baptist sent his disciples to ascertain whether the Messiah were indeed come or not, the answer they took back was the very thing which was forbidden to others--a report of miracles. The explanation of this seeming contradiction Is that wherever a report of th..
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