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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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