An Apology for the True Christian Divinity / Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers

by Robert Barclay

§. XII.

Answ.But this being an Objection once and again urged against the Primitive Protestants by the Papists, we need but in short return the Answer to it that they did to the Papists, to wit, Whether Miracles be now necessary to confirm the Gospel?That we need not Miracles, because we preach no new Gospel, but that which is already confirmed by all the Miracles of Christ and his Apostles; and that we offer nothing but that which we are ready and able to confirm by the Testimony of the Scriptures, which both already acknowledge to be true: John Baptist and divers Prophets did none.And that John the Baptist and divers of the Prophets did none that we hear of, and yet were both immediately and extraordinarily sent. This is the common Protestant Answer, therefore may suffice in this Place; though, if Need were, I could say more to this Purpose, but that I study Brevity.