An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 18. But though we know not that in Miracles God useth not second Causes, some natural and some free in ways unsearchable to us, yet may we be assured by Miracles of his will and attestation: when we find that things are done quite out of the way of his ordinary Providence in the uncontrolled confirmation of some prophetical Revelation: For God is the Governor of the rational World; and his moral Government must be by the intelligible signification of his will de debito, what shall be due from us, and to us: And if Miracles be used to deceive us, they cannot be done without him, whatever second Cause there be: And if he should use them (tho' by second Causes) to deceive us, we are utterly ⟨p. 81⟩remediless, and therefore guiltless. And God that […]ath neither impotency, ignorance nor badness, cannot need a Lye to govern Man, when he hath […]de it part of his Image, on Man, and needful to Mens Justice to each other to hate Lying.

§. 18. But though we know not that in Miracles God useth not second Causes, some natural and some free in waies unsearchable to us, yet may we be assured by Miracles of his will and attestation: when we find that things are done quite out of the way of his ordinary Providence in the uncontrouled confirmation of some prophetical Revelation: For God is the Governour of the rational World; and his moral Government must be by the intelligible signification of his will de debito, what shall be due from us, and to us: And if Miracles be used to deceive us, they cannot be done without him, whatever second Cause there be: And if he should use them (tho' by second Causes) to deceive us, we are utterly ⟨p. 81⟩remediless, and therefore guiltless. And God that 〈…〉ath neither impotency, ignorance nor badness, cannot need a Lye to govern Man, when he hath 〈…〉de it part of his Image, on Man, and needful to Mens Justice to each other to hate Lying.