Newman Reader - Essays on Miracles

INDEX

{395} Abbé Paris, cures at the tomb of, 33, 38, 44, 45, 59, 61, 64, 66, 90.
Æneas of Gaza, testifies to the miracle of the Confessors retaining the power
    of speech, 374.
African Confessors, miracle of the, 369; its completeness, 381; number on
    whom it was wrought, 382.
Alexander Pseudomantis, 81.
Alexander the coppersmith, 333.
Alypius, 335.
Ambrose, St., on the discovery of the two martyrs' bodies, 137; his character,
    238; resists the Empress Justina in her attempt to enforce Arian worship, 348;
    discovers the relics of St. Gervasius and St. Protasius, ib.
Ammianus, his account of Julian's attempt to rebuild the Temple, 337.
Ananias and Sapphira, 166, 333.
Angel-worship, 361.
Antonine Column at Rome, 249.
Antony, St., 122; his combats with evil spirits, 158.
Apocryphal Accounts of Christ, 28.
Apollonius, miracles attributed to, 27, 36, 57, 62, 90, 159.
Arius, sudden death of, 134, 327.
Arnobius, his challenge to the heathen as to miracles, 66.
Athanasius, St., Life of St. Antony, 122.
Augustine, St., his De Civitate Dei, 129; passage against the Donatists, 142;
    keenness of his intellect, 238.
Aurea Legenda of Jacob de Voragine, 236.
Austin, 84.

Balaam's ass, 30.
Barrington, Lord, on the duration of the gift of miracles, 214.
Basil, St., miraculously informed of the death of the Emperor Julian, 57; on
St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, 118.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 236.
Bentham, Jeremy, Preuves Judiciaires, 21, 45, 56, 58, 83.
Berkeley (Bishop) his Alciphron, 10.
Bernard, St., quoted, 208; his miracles, 219.
Bethesda, 34.
Blomfield, Bishop, Sermons, 135; quoted, 221. {396}
Bryant, 25.
Butler, Alban, lives of the Saints, 257.
Butler, Bishop, Analogy, 17, 71.

Calvin, on Saint Helena, 289.
Campbell on Miracles, 5, 50.
Chinese painters, their method of drawing, 82.
Chrysostom, St., on Miracles, 136.
Clarke, Dr., on the site of the Holy Sepulchre, 302.
Claudius Apollinaris, his Apology for Christianity lost, 241.
Clement, St., of Alexandria, quoted, 139.
Cock-lane ghost, 61.
Constantine's Luminous Cross, 134, 271; his letter to Macarius, 291.
Cyprian, divine admonition to, 37; his description of the demoniacs, 132;
account of a lapsed communicant, 134.
Cyril, St., of Jerusalem, on the discovery of the Cross, 293.

Davison's Discourses on Prophecy, quoted, 343.
Demetrian, 132.
Dio Cassius, on the miracle of the Thundering Legion, 248.
Doddridge on Acts, quoted, 64.
Demitian, assassination of, 57.
Donatus, 143.
Douglas, Bishop, his Criterion, 34, 42, 60, 61, 64, 106, 177.

Ecclesiastical Miracles, 97.
Eleazar, charm wrought by, 27.
Elijah's sacrifice, 31, 32; miracles, 88, 91, 332.
Elisha's miracles, 81, 91, 161, 163, 167, 232.
Elymas, 333.
Empedocles, 27.
Essenes, the, 361.
Eusebius, 123, 134, 241; his account of Narcissus, 256; of Constantine's
luminous Cross, 281; of the discovery of the Holy Cross, 290; and
Sepulchre, 305.
Eve's temptation by the serpent, 30.

Fabricius, quoted, 279.
Farmer on Miracles, 12, 26, 33, 50, 55.
Fleetwood on Miracles, 53.
Fleury's Ecclesiastical History, 99.
Francis, St., tears of, 256.

Gelasius, Pope, his warning to the faithful against apocryphal works, 235.
Genseric, 369.
Gervasius, St., discovery of the relics of, 134; miracles wrought by them,
    348.
Gibbon, his mock defence of the miracle wrought in the case of the
    Confessors, 87; on the first converts, 89; on the miracles of Moses and
    Joshua, 165; on the silence of the Saints as to their gift of miracles, 219;
    on the appearance of the Cross to Constantine, 282, 285; on the death
    of Arius, 331; on the miracle of the African Confessors, 352; on the
    persecution of Hunneric, 372; on Procopius, 376. {397}
Graves, Dr., Lectures on the Pentateuch, 37; quoted, 40.
Gregory, St., of Neocæsarea (Thaumaturgus), 117, 236; miracle on the
    course of the Lycus, 261.
Gregory, St., of Nyssa, 118; his account of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, 261.
Gretzer, de Cruce, quoted, 273.
Grotius, Hugo, 114.

Heber, Bishop, his article in the Quarterly Review on the site of the Holy
    Sepulchre, 302.
Helena, Saint, her discovery of the Holy Cross, 287.
Herod, 366.
Herodotus, fables related by, 56.
Hezekiah, recovery of, 66; site of the pool of, 311, 317-323.
Hilarion, his cures of wounds, 66; various miracles wrought by him, 126.
Hohenlohe, Prince, his cures stopped by authority, 45.
Hume on Miracles, 10; quoted, 14, 16, 20, 26; his argument from general
    experience, 54; argument against miracles generally, 155; their impossibility,
    175; quoted, 354.
Hunneric's persecution, 33, 87, 369-372.

Jansenists, ruin of, 44; their cures unsatisfactory, 60, 81.
Januarius, St., liquefaction of the blood of, 60, 63.
Jeremiah, his public declaration on Nebuchadnezzar's invasion, 366.
Jerome, St., his Life of Hilarion, 126, 162.
Jerusalem, site of, considered, 309.
Jesus, the Son of Sirach, 147.
Jewish Miracles, express purpose and one grand object of, 23; evidence
    for, 91.
Jonah and the whale, 30.
Jones on the Figurative Language of Scripture, 26; on the Canon, 28, 39, 235.
Jortin on the Ecclesiastical Miracles, 181, 190, 257.
Josephus, 27, 366.
Joshua, commands the Sun to stand still, 81.
Irenæus, St., 131, 140, 214, 224.
Isidore of Pelusium, 138.
Julian, Emperor, 57, 67; upbraids the Christians with their worship of the wood
    of the Cross, 275; Fiery Eruption on his attempt to rebuild the Jewish Temple,
    334.
Justina, Empress, 348.
Justinian, Emperor, edict to Archelaus, 377.
Justin, St., on the Incarnation, 224.

Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, 347.
Koran, boasted elegance of the, 62.

Lardner, Dr., on St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, 262; on the Emperor Julian's
attempt to rebuild the Temple, 339-341.
Lavington's Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists, 28.
Lazarus, restoration of, 60.
Lee, Professor, Persian Tracts, 76.
Leland's View of Deistical Writers, 14. {398}
Livy, prodigies of, no part in the action of his history, 36.
Loyola, 76.
Lycus, changed in its course by St. Gregory, 261.
Lyttelton, Lord, on St. Paul's conversion, 231.

Macrina, St., 261, 268.
Mahomet's night-journey to heaven, 65; miracles of, 76.
Marcellinus, Count, testifies to the miracle of the Confessors retaining their
    power of speech, 378.
Marcus Antoninus, 134, 242.
Martin, St., miracles of, 127, 163, 209.
Maxentius, Constantine's engagement with, 271, 278, 281.
Melchior Canus, 236.
Middleton's Free Enquiry, 29, 42, 57, 60, 79, 131, 154, 164, 206, 384.
Milman, Dean, on the history of Samson, 168; on the apparition of the
    Cross to Constantine, 251; on Herod and John the Baptist, 367.
Milner's Church History, 87.
Miracle, idea and scope of a, 4; antecedent credibility of considered as a
    Divine interposition, 13; criterion of, 49; et sæpius.
Miracles of Scripture, characterized, 388.
Montanus, trances of, 64.
Moses, divides the Red Sea, 66; miracles of, 88, 163.
Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History; 41, 86, 90, 245.
Moyle, on the miracle of the Thundering Legion, 245-247, 250.

Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem, changes water into oil, 134, 255.
Natalis, 123.
Nazarius, his panegyrical oration upon the Emperor Constantine, 277.
Neander's Church History, 245.
Newman, Dr., "Apologia," passage quoted from, 391-393.

Optatus of Milevis, 145.
Origen, 137, 140; quoted, 189, 220.
Osburn's Errors of the Apostolic Fathers, 139.

Paine, the notorious, 366.
Paley's Evidences, 44, 59, 79, 89, 91; quoted, 329-330.
Palladius, 237, 238.
Papias, 131.
Paulinus, St., on the discovery of the Cross, 299.
Paul the Hermit, buried by lions, 29.
Penrose on Miracles, quoted, 43.
Phidias, figure of on Minerva's shield, 37.
Philostratus, his account of Apollonius, 75, 159.
Pliny, on fountains of oil, 258.
Polycarp, St., martyrdom of, 29; fragrance issues from, 133.
Procopius of Cæsarea, testifies to the miracle of the Confessors
retaining their power of speech, 375.
Protasius, St., discovery of the relics of, 135; miracles wrought by, 348.
Protestant habits of thought, 176.
Pythagoras. 27. {399}

Quarterly Review, on the discovery and site of the Holy Sepulchre,
302, 303

Recovery of the Blind Man, Severus, by the Relics of St. Gervasius and
St. Protasius, 348.
Religion, its prepossessions always the strongest, 86
Robinson, Professor, quoted, 289, 295-297, 321-325.

Sabbath-day's journey, space of, 308-309.
Samson, history of, 168.
Samuel, invokes a storm to defeat the Philistines, 253.
Saragossa, Cathedral of, 87.
Scripture, compared to a garden of Eden, 151.
Serapis, worshippers of, 87.
Sergius Paulus, 39.
Simon Magus, miracles of, 28.
Socrates, Ecclesiastical History, quoted, 341.
Sodom, destruction of, 172.
Speculum Exemplorum, 236.
Stephen, St., miracles at his shrine at Hippo, 130.
St. George, the patron Saint of England, 235.
Stillingfleet, 32, 59.
Sulpicius, his account of St. Martin, 127, 209, 234.
Sumner, Archbishop, Records of Creation, 9.

Tacitus, 34.
Taylor, Isaac, his Ancient Christianity, 135; on St. Ambrose, 238;
    quoted, 292, 297; on the Nicene miracles, 358.
Tentative Miracles, 220.
Tereus, 375.
Tertullian, his account of the vision of an Angel, 37; his De Pudicitiâ,
    139, quoted, 225, 242.
Theodoret's Religious History, 237.
Theodotus, heresy of, 123; writings of, 139.
Theophilus, St., 203.
Thundering Legion, the, 241.
Tillemont, 237, 300.
Tillotson, Archbishop, his decisive argument against the Real Presence, 109.
Tongue, the, recent instances of its growing again after extraction, sufficiently
    for purposes of speech, 392.

Van Mildert's Boyle Lectures, 53.
Vespasian, cures ascribed to, 34, 38, 77, 87.
Victor, Bishop of Vite, testifies to the miracle of the Confessors retaining their
power of speech, 373.
Victor, Bishop of Tonno, testifies to the miracle of the Confessors, 378.
Vince on Miracles, 18, 20; a valuable treatise, 70.
Voltaire, his objection to miracles as arguing mutability in the Deity, 21.

Warburton, Bishop, Divine Legation, 18, 30; Sermon on Resurrection, 34;
    quoted, 44; his test of true miracles, 106; writes in defence of the miraculous
    character of the fiery eruption which defeated Julian's attempt to rebuild the
    Temple, 334. {400}
Water changed into oil at the prayer of St. Narcissus, 255.
Whately, Archbishop, his Treatise on Rhetoric, 14.
Whiston, quoted, 45.
White, Blanco, Against Catholicism, 38.

Xavier, 79.

Zeno, 87, 373.
Zoroaster, extraordinary works attributed to, 27, 31.

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