1817 Oct 21

Not Paul

Introd.

the labours of D r Farmer and other illustrious defenders of the Christian faith, have been endeavour to wipe from the Gospel history what the false and fallacious gloss of a miracle.

Without going our of his way for the purpose of passing a judgment on a question not included within the field of the present enquiry, the author will venture to say that with much less force put upon language than was necessary for the conversion of Devils into diseases and thus substituting what appeared was thought to be a defensible he it will be found to have here shewn, that in the a number of cases which the substitute to the reader the gloss of a miracle has may be seen to have been wiped off from an ordinary occasion so many occurrences of the most ordinary nature.

It will be among the questions on which will have to pronounce, whether of the several supposed or supposable miracles that will be brought under his review, none of which belong to the Gospel history, there be any of which the miraculous character will abide the test. In regard to those which in any subsequent history we of to those spoken of in the Gospel there be any which rest on/

for the any miracles than those reported in the Gospel history, miracles which have been been ascribed to persons other than Jesus, instead of having for their support the accumulated body of wisdom contained in the Gospel history rest on any stronger foundation than that the report of a single writer, writing at a great distance from the time of the alledged occurrences the report being in most instances if not in every case without exception that without impeaching the veracity of the author the may be stated as composing a man, the occurrence ordinary occurrence to which his own had given