The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

I shall only add, That the Apostles did many and great Miracles in the Name of Christ, which was the strongest demonstration that He was raised to a glorious Life. They were invested by the Spirit with the habits of various Tongues. This kind of Miracle was necessary for the universal Preaching of the Gospel: For how difficult and obstructive had it been to their Work, if they must have returned to their Infant-state, to learn the Signification of foreign Languages, to pronounce the words in their original Sound, and the Accents proper to their Country? Therefore the Holy Spirit, according to the promise of Christ, descended upon them, and became their Master, and in a moment imprest on their Memories the forms of discoursing, and on their Tongues the manner of expressing them. Where-ever the Doctrine of Jesus was preached, God bare them witness ⟨p. 477⟩both with Signs and Wonders, ¹and with divers Miracles and Gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will. When St. Peter passed through the streets, filled with persons diseased and half dead, he caused an universal resurrection by touching them with his reviving shadow. They tamed Serpents, and quenched the malignity of their Poison; they commanded Death to leave its prey, and Life to return to its mansion that was not habitable for it. And that miraculous Power continued in their Successors so long as was requisite for the conviction of the World. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, Cyprian, mention divers Miracles performed by Christians in those times. Tertullian offers to the Emperor, to whom he adderest his admirable Apology, to compel the Devils that possest Humane Bodies to confess themselves to be evil Spirits, to constrain the Prince of darkness to enlighten his own Slaves. And Cyprian assures the Governor of Africa, that he would force the Devils to come out of the Bodies they tormented, lamenting their ejection. Now we cannot imagine they would so far discredit their Doctrine and Reputation, as to pretend to such a Power without they had it. In short, To deny the Miracles wrought by the Primitive Christians, were as great rashness, as to deny that Caesar conquered Pompey, or that Titus succeeded Vespasian. For we have the concurrent Testimony of the gravest and best Men, of Understanding and Conscience, who were Eye-witnesses, and which was not contradicted by those of the same Age.

I shall only add, That the Apostles did many and great Miracles in the Name of Christ, which was the strongest demonstration that He was rais'd to a glorious Life. They were invested by the Spirit with the habits of various Tongues. This kind of Miracle was necessary for the universal Preaching of the Gospel: For how difficult and obstructive had it been to their Work, if they must have return'd to their Infant-state, to learn the Signification of forrein Languages, to pronounce the words in their original Sound, and the Accents proper to their Countrey? Therefore the Holy Spirit, according to the promise of Christ, descended upon them, and became their Master, and in a moment imprest on their Memories the forms of discoursing, and on their Tongues the manner of expressing them. Where-ever the Doctrine of Jesus was preach'd, God bare them witness