Now, humanly speaking, there is no human certainty, but reason.
It is said: Believe the Church, but it is not said: Believe in Miracles, because the last is natural and not the first. The one had need of a precept, not the other.
Miracles.—How I hate those who make men doubt of miracles. Montaigne speaks of them as he should in the two passages. In one we see how careful he is, yet in the other he believes, and laughs at unbelievers.
However it may be, the Church has no proofs if they are right.
Montaigne against miracles.
Montaigne for miracles.
The reason why men do not believe.
Joh. xii. 37. Cum autem tanta signa fecisset, non credebant in eum, ut sermo Isaye impleretur. Excecavit, etc.
Hæc dixit Isaias, quando vidit gloriam ejus, et locutus est de eo.
—Judæi signa petunt, et Græci sapientiam quærunt.