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1817 Oct. 25

Ch. Miracles Quasi, Visions

1. Miraculous account false

III or Verbal or else Miracles

17 Acts XXVII. 22. 25. Copy these four verses (Comforting Angel on shipboard.

II. Inferential quasi miracles Acts XXVII. 34. Wherefore pray you &c not a hair shall fall &c

IV. Miracles unparticularized continued

6 Acts XIX. 6. 7. And when Paul had laid (his) hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues and prophecied. (v. 7) And all the men were about twelve.

6. Acts XIX. 11. 12. And God wrought special miracles by the hand of Paul: so that from his body &c. Copy the verse.

Miraculous accounts false

16. Acts XXII 17 to 21.

Trance in Jerusalem temple Copy v. 17 to 21

14. Acts XVIII 9. 10. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision. Be not afraid &c. Copy 9 and 10.

15. Acts XIX 13 to 20. Exorcists bedeviled. Magic books burnt by the owners. Copy verses 13 to 20.

III continued. Quasi Miracles inferential

17. Acts XX. 23. Save that the holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying &c.

16. Acts XX 22. And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem.

15. Acts XIX 21. Paul purposed in the Spirit … to go to Jerusalem. Copy the Verse.

14. Acts XIX. 6. 7. And when Paul had laid (his) hands upon them, the Holy Ghost come on them, and they spake with tongues and prophecied. And all the men were about twelve.

13. Acts XVIII. 5. Paul was ‘pressed in Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.’

12. Acts XVI. 26. to 34. ‘And suddenly there was a great earthquake &c. (Paul and Silas liberated.)

11. Acts XVI. 7. ‘They’ (Paul and Timotheus assayed to go to Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not

10 Acts XVI. 6 They (Paul and Timotheus were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.’

9. Acts XII. 23. And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him (Herod) &c. Copy the verses

Miraculous accounts false

5. Paul’s Vision Acts IX 1 to 9.

6. Ananias’s Vision Acts IX. 10 to 16.

7. Paul’s vision as reported by the Lord to Ananias in his vision Acts IX. 12.

8. Scales that fell from Paul’s eyes Acts IX. 18. ‘And immediately &c. Copy the verse.

9. Tabitha resuscitated by Peter Acts IX. 36. to 42.

10. Peter’s Vision at Joppa Acts X. 9 to 16. XI. 4. to 10.

11. Lystra Cripple cured by Paul Acts XIV. 8. 9. 10.

12. Acts XVI. 9. 10. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night Copy verses 9 and 10.

13. Acts XVI. 18. Paul being grieved turned and said to the Spirit (of divination v. 16) I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out of her the same hour.

6. At Lydda paralytic Æneas cured by Peter IX. 34. 35.

7. Cornelius’s Vision at Cæsarea Acts X. 3 to 7. XI. 13.

8. Acts X. 19. 20. While Peter thought on the vision, the spirit said to him &c.

3. Acts VIII. 26. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying &c. Copy the verse.

4. Acts VIII. 29. ‘Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near’ &c

5. Acts VIII. 39 … the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip that the Eunuch saw him no more … 40 But Philip was found at Azotus.

6. Acts XI 12. ‘And the Spirit bade me (Peter) ‘go with them nothing doubting.’

7. Acts XI. 28 … Agabus … signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth &c.

8. Acts XII. 7. 8. 9. The Angel of the Lord came upon him (Peter) and &c. Copy the verses.

Quasi Miracles inferential /[…?]/ Acts XXVIII. Copy from 3 to 6. And when Paul &c.

Quasi Miracles verbal

Acts XXVIII Copy from 7 to 10. Publius’s father cured or doctored: also others nameless

8. [Greek] 9. [Greek]

1. Miraculous account false

2 Peter’s resuscitation of Tabitha

Acts IX 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.

3.[?] Peter and John’s cure of the temple cripple Acts III 1 to 11. IV. 9. 13. 14. 22.

4. Stephen’s vision Acts VII 55.

II. Quasi Miraculous accounts: quasi miracles inferential or by inference

1. Cloven tongues Acts II 1 to 13: or […?]

2. Paralytic Æneas cured by Peter Acts IX. 33. 34.

3. Acts IV 31. the place was shaken where they (the Apostles) were assembled together; and they were all filled with the holy Ghost &c

4. Ananias and Sapphira’s death Acts V. 1 to 11

5. v. 15. ‘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.’

6. Acts XX 7 to 12 Eutychus raised up. Copy v. 7 to 12.

III. Quasi-Miraculous accounts or Quasi Miracles made by double entendre: alias verbal miracles

I Acts V. 19. The angel of the Lord by night opened the prison-doors, and brought them forth.

2. Acts VI. 15. And all that sat in the Council looking stedfastly at him (Stephen) saw his face as if it had been the face of an Angel.

IV. Miracles unparticularized

1. Acts II 43 ‘Many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles.

2. Acts V. 12. And by the hand of the Apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people.

3. Acts VIII. 6. 7. 13. Philip’s

4. Simon Magus’s Acts VIII 10. 11.

5. Acts XV. 12 ‘Then all the multitude … gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.’

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1817 Sept. 14

Not Paul

§. 1. Paul’s doctrines the result of his worldly scheme: 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25

§. 2 Faith in him his primum mobile. 1. 2. 3. 4 5. 6. 26. 31.

§. 3. Faith, how far conducive to true religion 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 32

- good, only in so far as well as applied: in the abstract, conducive to false religion.  Add as well as to folly and improbity.

§. 4 Of the faith inculcated by Paul, verbal object Jesus’s doctrines: real, his own. 13. 40. 41.

§. 5 God’s attributes - which of them it suited his purpose to hold up particularly to view. 14

§. 5. Observances - what it suited his purpose most strenuously to inculcate. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. See Ch | | Paul’s asceticism causes of it.

§. 7. Paul’s inducements for preaching in Jesus’s name, and not in his own 27. 28. 29. 30.

§. 8. Paul’s inducements depretiating works: viz. Jewish works 33. 40.

§. 9. The works depretiated by him were Jewish works only not moral ones. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40

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Title: [1817 Oct. 23 Not Paul 11]

Description: 1817 Oct. 23

Not Paul

11

Ch. Miracles Quasi, Visions

3

§. 2 Visions

Upon so baseless a fabric as that of a vision―upon that and nothing more scarcely will any instance / a man venture / ever be found to seek to found a religion true or false. But for the foundation he found / saw / laid by Jesus, no such enterprize would even Paul himself have ventured to engage in have hazarded. But, ere that enquiry is at an end some it is imagined there will be in whose eyes upon a foundation not more substantial / solid / will have been placed a false edition of / superstructure erected upon / a true one.

To us who live / view the matter / in these our days the pretension of our Paul will present themselves / appear / as riding not merely on his alledged visions alone, but on these with the addition of a list of miracles. But whatsoever miracles or quasi miracles may have been collected for his support by his adherent and historiographer the nameless author of the Acts, it is upon his visions and his visions alone that we shall find him in his days resting his pretensions: nothing being said on these occasions by him of signs and wonders particularized or unparticularized.

But though in the circumstances in which he found himself we shall find him venturing his pretensions in appearance upon such unsubstantial ground, it will be only in appearance: never setting himself up in his own name―ever making use of the name of Jesus, and thus setting his foot on the basis / groundwork / laid by Jesus we shall find him thus tacitly but not the less effectually turning to his own present account whatsoever miracle he found ascribed to Jesus.