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Its Supernatural Character accepted and perpetuated by Christ - Modern

Denial of Miracle- The Result of Materialistic Education Protestantism

the only Church denying Present Miracle-Dr Middleton, Bishop Douglas,

Farmer, Hume- The Rationalists, by calling in question the Miracles of the

Bible, render Christ an Impostor - Folly of imagining that the Jews did not

Understand their own History, or that they Falsified it -The Abbé Baruel's

Protest against the Sceptics - Evidence requires Renewing - Terrible cha-

racter of Human History- Thus Evidencing the Perpetual Action of

Spiritual Evil-Creation the First and Greatest Miracle- The Early History

of Man attests the Truth of Swedenborg's Theories- Various Phases of

Scripture Miracle — Appearance of Angels — Of God in His Angels — God's

Appearance to Abraham, Moses, Balaam, &c. - Divine Dreams and Visions

as witnessed by the Patriarchs and Prophets - The Spirit of Prophecy in

Israel Moses at the Commencement of the Jewish History exactly

Foretells its End - This Confirmed by Josephus, an Eye-witness — The

Reality of the Miracles of the Egyptian Soothsayers - Miracles in the

Wilderness - The same through the Jewish History - Raising the Dead,

Opening the Inner Vision, Spirit-writing — The Nature of Idols and Idolatry

- Prohibition of Sorcery - A Famine of the Word Predicted, and eventually

takes place Josephus Defends the Truth of the Jewish History -- Shows

the unreliableness of Greek Literature - Its comparative Modernness - Mis-

representations of Teachers — The Jews ready to affirm the Truth of their

History by their Death-Asserted burning of the Hebrew Sacred Books-

Recent Ludicrous Account of the Nabateans - Who they are PAGE 113

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Fine Incident in Esdras before Darius
Of the Woman in a Field - Keen Ridicule of
Idolatry - The Book of Tobit - The Prophecy of Jonah Fulfilled against
Nineveh in the Time of Tobias - Miraculous Seenes in the Book of Macca-
bees - Heliodorus in the Temple - Recovery of the Sacred Fire by Nehe-
miah - Omens on the Approach of Antiochus Epiphanes - The Miracles of
the Apocrypha confirmed by Josephus and Philo-Judæus

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Vinet's Eloquent View of the Origin and Power of Christianity - Christianity
the only effectual Light in the Dark History of the World-Christ Foretold

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by the Sibyls Heralded by Hebrew and Pagan Seers, yet Unrecognised at
His Advent by the Jews- Opposite Representations of the Messiah in the
Prophets, yet all Harmonising - Desperate Resistance of the Learned Jews
to Conviction-Similarity of Mind in the Jews and Modern Scientific Men-
New Ideas most readily Accepted by the so-called Credulous, and by Women
-The Miracles performed by the Devil-The Miracles of Christ-The Cases
of Possession in the New Testament Real, not mere Diseases-Proofs of this
No Devils to be Cast Out in the Church of England, except by Special

License from a Bishop-This Canon thoroughly Anti-Christian-Apparitions

known in Christ's Time-The Saviour Walking on the Water supposed to

be one-Angel Messengers in the New Testament, as in the Old-Sorcery,

several Cases of it-John's Warning against Evil Spirits-The Mosaic Law

against Seeking to the Dead, abrogated by Christ on the Mount of Trans-

figuration - Instances of Christ and His Apostles rising into the Air-

Modern Instances Miracles never Denied by the Church of Rome

Opinion of the Consequences of such Denial, by the Rev. Mr. Beecher —

Knocking of Spirits - Christ Stands and Knocks- - Evil as well as Good

Spirits present themselves now as of old - The Stigmata - Catherine

Emmerich - Dr. Wolff's Opinion that St. Paul bore the Stigmata — The

Startling Nature of some of Christ's Doctrines to the Jews-Eating of Blood

-Modern Objectors to Spiritual Phenomena exact Counterparts of the Infidel

Jews-The Blind and Deaf of To-day think those who See and Hear Mad-

The Power of working Miracles the Eternal Heritage of the Church--This

Heritage not confined to Bishops or Clergy - The Spirit of Prophecy re-

stored in Christianity - No Church, according to St. Paul, can be a Living

Church without Spiritual Gifts - The Grand Distinction of the Church of

Christ the Limitless Outpouring of the Spirit - Connected sequence of His-

toric Evidence of Christianity - The History of Eusebius - Proofs of Chris-

tianity in Lucian - Pliny's Letter to Trajan-Testimony of Tacitus-

Testimony of the Ancient Jews in the Toldath Jeschu-Josephus's mention

of Christ - Justin Martyr to Trypho-Fulfilment of the Predictions of

Moses and of Christ in the Destruction of Jerusalem-Fulfilment at this Day

of Christ Words Daughters of Jerusalem, weep for yourselves,' as witnessed

by Miss Bremer and Dr. Wolff — Testimony of the Pagan Historian Am-

mianus Marcellinus-Testimony of other Historians .

The Supernatural a Universal Principle-Presents itself under various
Phases-Whether Good or Bad to be known by its Fruits-Horst's View of it
-According to Goethe, this Faith is Inborn - Exists, according to Bryant,
Cudworth, Faber, and Cory, as the Basis of all Mythologies - The Mytholo-
gies all traced to the Period before the Dispersion at Babel - The Greek
Mythology from this Source This evident in Hesiod, the Sibylline Verses,

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No People more Spiritually Receptive than the Greeks - This the Source of
their Eminence in the Arts and Philosophy - Philosophical Theories of
Greece-The Hylopathians-The Atomic and Hylozoic Philosophers-The

THE SAME FAITH CONTINUES IN ALL THESE NATIONS TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

Sceptics the Misbirths of Humanity-Scene at Mr. Salt's at Cairo-Mr. Lane
and the Magician-The Author of Eothen-Experiences of M. Dalaborde
in Egypt
Also of Dr. Wolff, Lord Prudhoe, and Others - The Magician
Abóo Roo-oo's displays wonderful Power-Mrs. Poole's Account of a Haunted
House in Cairo-The Sheikh Bechir-Indian Ascetics-Fakirs and Djogis
-Indian Jugglers-The Fakir Buried Alive at Lahore and Resuscitated-
The Brahmin's Prediction to Mr. Hodges, and to Others - Spiritualism
amongst the Karens-Abu Rihan-Chinese Magic-Lao-tse and Confucius
-The Tao-tse of China, Cathay, &c. - The Rebellion in China Foretold by
a Chinese Spirit in America-Dr. Macgowan's Account of Present Magic
Practices in China-Rapping and Table-Turning familiar in Tartary in the

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