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In these two essays—The Miracles of Scripture and The Miracles of Early Ecclesiastical History—John Henry Newman argues in favor of the many miraculous acts of God throughout history. Newman begins his argument by providing a proper definition for a miracle and necessary evidence required to substantiate the claim of a miracle. Then Newman discusses several specific miracles and gives well...

us much to know, though from nature we know nothing; considering, lastly, our experience of a watchful and merciful Providence, and the impracticability already noticed of a Revelation without a Miracle, it is hardly too much to affirm that the moral system points to an interference with the course of nature, and that Miracles wrought in evidence of a Divine communication, instead of being antecedently improbable, are, when directly attested, entitled to a respectful and impartial consideration.
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