Eight Lectures on Miracles, Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year M.DCCC.LXV. on the Foundation of the Late REV. John Bampton - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867. Excerpt: ... LECTURE VIII. FALSE MIRACLES. Matt. Vii. 22. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works i xL LARGE class of miraculous pretensions is not confined to one religion, or even to religion altogether, but belongs to human nature. Does man desire a miracle as a proof that a revelation is true % That is a legitimate want. Does he desire one merely to gratify his curiosity and love of the marvellous, for excitement and not for use? That is a morbid want. For though the innate love of the supernatural in man's heart is legitimately gratified by a miracle, man has no right to ask for miracles in order to gratify this affection, any more than he has to ask for them even as evidence, idly and treacherously, when he does not intend to accept them as such even when done. On both accounts "an adulterous generation" which " sought after signs" was once rebuked. This morbid want, however, joined to the eager expectation that God would constantly interpose to prevent the injurious effects of His general laws, has produced a constant stream of miraculous pretension in the world, which accompanies man wherever he is found, and is a part of his mental and physical history. Curiosity, imagination, misery, helplessness, and indolence, have all conspired to throw him upon this support, which he has sought in order to penetrate into the secrets of the future, to lift up the veil of the invisible world, and to obtain under calamity and disease that relief which God either did not design to give at all, or only to give through the instrumentality of human skill and industry. This perpetual phenomenon of miraculous pretension, this running accompaniment of human natu...
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