Miracles

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Excerpt from Miracles: A Rhapsody Successful, is not that of the person ailing, nor of any who are addressing it to Heaven in his presence. Consequently prayers, so offered, can not have made his imagination the instrument of his cure.'r - But he had known that they would be, and at the moment knew that they were, put up on his behalf. I answer, that we should be tri¿ing most irreverently with Heaven, if we offered up our prayers before the throne of God, not in the hope that He would interpose, but that the imagination of our unhealthy neigh bour might be stimulated into an action, which would Operate favourably on his case. In my mind it would be less impious to have recourse to a delusion, and persuade him that he was prayed for, when in reality he was not. As to prayer supplying the place of medicine, blister, the lancet, or the knife, (otherwise I mean than miraculously) this will not be contended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.