THE CRITERION; OR, RULES BY WHICH THE TRUE MIRACLES RECORDED IN The New Testament ARE DISTINGUISHED FROM THE SPURIOUS MIRACLES OF PAGANS AND PAPISTS. BY JOHN DOUGLAS, D.D. a LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY. A New Edition, REVISED AND ABRIDGED BY THE REV. W. MARSH, A.M. COLCHESTER: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SWINBORNE AND WALTER. SOLD ALSO BY HATCHARD AND SON; AND BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND PREFACE. In an age when Books are so multiplied, little apology is necessary for Abridgments. If the substance of a work can be given, the words and style of an Author be preserved, and all the arguments essential to his object remain, no injury is done to him. I have aimed at this in the present edition of the late Bishop of Salisbury's valuable "CRITERION;" by which true miracles are distinguished from those which are spurious. Not only the efforts of Infidelity, and the spirit of Scepticism, which have again appeared in our country, require publications of this nature; but the daring attempt' of Superstition also, to impose on the credulity of men, by giving to the effects of imagination the sacred name of miracles, loudly calls for such a protest. In our Sister Country of Ireland, in the north of England, and in the neighbourhood of the Author of this Abridgment, Prince Hohenlohe is believed to have wrought such wonders as should convince all of the truth of Popery, and that miraculous powers are perpetuated in the Church of Rome, as the true and only Church of Christ. A 2 (RECAP) 5723 ·308 149049 |