Such are the occasions on which we exclude certain miracles from credence. There need be no other exclusions.
But it does not therefore follow that they had the right to exclude all the prophets who came to them. They would have sinned in not excluding those who denied God, and would also have sinned in excluding those who denied him not.
So soon, then, as we see a miracle we should at once either acquiesce or have signal marks against it. We must see if it denies either a God, or Jesus Christ, or the Church.
Miracles avail not for conversion, but for condemnation. I P. ix. 113, a. 10, ad. 2.
Si tu es Christus, dic nobis.
Opera quæ ego facio in nomine patris mei, hæc testimonium perhibent de me.
Sed non vos creditis quia non estis ex ovibus meis. Oves mei vocem meam audiunt.
Joh. vi. 30. Quod ergo tu facis signum ut videamus, et credamus tibi? Non dicunt: Quam doctrinam prædicas?
Nemo potest facere signa quæ tu facis, nisi Deus fuerit cum illo.
2 Mach. xiv. 15. Deus qui signis evidentibus suam portionem protegit.