A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages / [Conyers Middleton].
- Conyers Middleton
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages / [Conyers Middleton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Chriftians of his time were unjuftly treated by the Gentiles, 196 Athenagoras allows extraordinary works to have been performed by De¬ mons, 77. Affirms, that the prophets of the old Teftament, while under the divine impulfe, were tranfpcrted out of their fenfes, 111 Athanasius, St. one of the firft, who in¬ troduced monks into Italy, Intr. lii. His life of St. Antony the monk full of mira¬ cles of that faint, 146, 147. Affirms, that he had inferted nothing in that life, but what he either knew to be true, or what he had learnt from one, who long miniftered to the faint, 146 Augustin,St. ftiles monks the fervants of God, Intr. liii, liv. His account of a miracle performed by the reliques of the martyrs Protajius and GernjaJius, lvii. Alferts two miraculous cures performed by oil from the lamps of martyrs, Ixiii. Knew many, who were adorers of fe- pulchres and pictures in churches, lxiv. Gives us a Latin tranflation of an a- croftich afcribed to the Erythraean Sibyl, N. [2] 36. Owns, that fome fufpetted all the prophecies relating to Chrift, which palled under the name of the fi- byl, to have been forged by the Chri¬ ftians, N. [2] 37. His anfwer to the queftion. Why miracles were not per¬ formed in his time ? feems to imply a celfation of them, 137. Maintains, that tho’ miracles were frequently w'rought, yet the fame of them was not fo illuftri- ous, as of thofe of the Apoftles, 138. Stories of miracles related by him as from his own knowledge, as contempti¬ ble as any in the Popiffilegends, 138 iff feqq. His account of miracles wrought by the reliques of St. Stephen, 142, 143, 144. Remarks on thofe miracles, 143, 146. His remark on the cafe of Di?io- crates an infant, urged as a proof, that bnptifm was not abfolutely neceffiary to an Admiffion into paradife, 206. n. Re¬ lates, that St. John was not believed to be dead, but only fleeping in his grave at Ephefus, N. [j] 229, 230. Autolycus, an eminent heathen, chal¬ lenged Theophilus Bp. of Antioch to (hew him one perfon, who had been railed from the dead, 73 B. Babylas, St. his a&s and miracles cele¬ brated by St. Chryfojiom, 152 Baptism compared by St. Cyprian to the Red Sea in the time of Pharaoh, 17 Baradatus, a monk, who lived in a cage, 175 Basil St. ftiles monkery an angelical in- ftitution, Intr. lii. His encomium up¬ on the reliques of the martyrs, lv. His pretended revelation of Julian the Em¬ peror’s death, 156 Bede: his works filled with miracles, Int. lxxxiii. Berriman, Dr. His defence of a miracle wrought in the middle of the fifth century, in confutation of the Arian Hcrefy, Intr. li, lxxxi. Makes ufe of feveral miracles related by Pope Gregory the Great, Ixxx. Avows the miraculous powers of the Church to the end of the fixth century, lxxxi. Cites the Authority ot Gregory the Great, and ljidore of Sc<vil, as men of too much learning and judgment to be deceived, lxxxi, lxxxii. Defends a miracle near the end of the fifth cen¬ tury, and infills, that it cannot be dif- credited without lhaking the whole faith of hiftory, xc. Alferts the genuine- nefs of the Creed faid to be com¬ municated to St. Gregory the wonder¬ worker by the Virgin Mary and St. John, 148, 149. Affirms St. Gregory to have been highly diftinguilhed by the extraordinary gifts of the holy Gholi, 149. No Proteftant but he and Dr. Chapman ever attempted to defend, ei¬ ther the miracles, or the principles of the fifth century, 171. Defends a miracle of the fifth century, 182. His defence examined, 183, & fcqq, - * Bingham, Mr. gives the form of the ordi¬ nation of exorcifts. N. [2] 86. G g z ■' Books :](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3051597x_0391.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
