Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

I have given you several instances of the Miracles of Christ in this second year of his Ministry;¹ only a few words on this Doctrine of Miracles for our information, as 1. What they are? 2. Why they are? 3. Whether they are chained and continued in this great transaction of our souls salvation? and I have done.

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For the first, what they are? Miracles are unusual events wrought above the course or possibility of Nature; such were the Miracles of Christ, and such were the Miracles of the Prophets, and of the Apostles of Christ; for what they did was above Nature; and all the difference betwixt their Miracles and the Miracles of Christ was only in this, viz. they wrought them not in their own Name and Power as Jesus Christ did; Thus when Elisha with twenty loaves and some full ears of corn fed an hundred men, Give unto the people (says he) that they may eat; ¹and his servitor said, what should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, give the people that they may eat, for thus saith Lord, they shall eat and shall leave thereof.

For the first, what they are? Miracles are unusual events wrought above the course or possibility of Nature; such were the Miracles of Christ, and such were the Miracles of the Prophets, and of the Apostles of Christ; for what they did was above Nature; and all the difference betwixt their Miracles and the Miracles of Christ was only in this, viz. they wrought them not in their own Name and Power as Jesus Christ did; Thus when Elisha with twenty loaves and some full ears of corn fed an hundred men, Give unto the people (sayes he) that they may eat; ¹and his servitor said, what should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, give the people that they may eat, for thus saith Lord, they shall eat and shall leave thereof.