Essays on Miracles
John Henry Newman
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Dedication
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD BLACHFORD, K.C.M.G., P.C.,
IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE
OF OLD DAYS
OF PLEASANT INTIMATE COMPANIONSHIP,
FROM HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,
JOHN H. NEWMAN.
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{vii} BOTH these Essays were written when the
author was Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
The former of them, on the Miracles of Scripture, was written in
1825-26 for the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana," being the
sequel to a Life of Apollonius Tyanæus.
The latter, on the Miracles of the first age of Christianity, was
written in 1842-43, as a Preface to a Translation of a portion of
Fleury's Ecclesiastical History.
In the first of the two, the Miracles of Scripture are regarded as
mainly addressed to religious inquirers, of an evidential nature, the
instruments of conversion, and the subjects of an inspired record. In
the second, the Ecclesiastical Miracles are regarded as addressed to
Christians, the rewards of faith, and the matter of devotion, varying
in their character from simple providences to distinct innovations
upon physical order, and coming to us by tradition or in legend,
trustworthy or not, as it may happen in the particular case. {viii}
These distinct views of miraculous agency, thus contrasted, involve
no inconsistency with each other; but it must be owned that, in the
Essay upon the Scripture Miracles, the Author goes beyond both the
needs and the claims of his argument, when, in order to show their
special dignity and beauty, he depreciates the purpose and value of
the Miracles of Church History. To meet this undue disparagement, in
his first Essay, of facts which have their definite place in the
Divine Dispensation, he points out, in his second, the essential
resemblance which exists between many of the Miracles of Scripture and
those of later times; and it is with the same drift that, in this
Edition, a few remarks at the foot of the page have been added in
brackets.
With the exception of these bracketed additions in both Essays, and
of a Memorandum at the end of the volume, the alterations made,
whether in text or notes, are simply of a literary character. As to
the latter, no verification has been made of the references which they
contain, much pains having been bestowed on them, as it is believed,
in the original Edition.
June 29, 1870.
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TWO ESSAYS
ON
BIBLICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
MIRACLES
BY
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
NEW IMPRESSION
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1907
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