[11]. Rev. T. Byrth’s Lecture, Part I. p. 114.
[12]. Rev. Dr. Tattershall’s Lecture on the Integrity of the Canon, p. 69.
[13]. “Whatever lessons of instruction or doctrines they teach us, these doctrines being themselves wise and holy, must have been delivered under a divine sanction, and therefore possess divine authority.
“If he (that is, the person who performs miracles) also teaches lessons,—lessons worthy of God,—these lessons undoubtedly come to us clothed with divine authority.”—Dr. Tattershall’s Lecture, pp. 70, 71.
[14]. Sherlock’s Discourses, No. 10, Hughes’s edition, Vol. I. p. 197, and No. 15, Vol. I. p. 278.
[15]. Lord King’s Life of Locke, p. 125.
[16]. Sermons at the Boyle Lecture, Prop. xiv.
[17]. Essay on Miracles, p. 99, seq., as quoted by Farmer in his Dissertation on Miracles, chap. i. § 3.
[18]. “No minister or ministers shall, without the licence and direction of the Bishop of the Diocese, first obtained and had under his hand and seal, ... attempt, upon any pretence whatsoever, either of possession or obsession, by fasting and prayer, to cast out any devil or devils, under pain of the imputation of imposture or cozenage, and deposition from the ministry.”—Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical, lxxii.
[19]. Apology for the True Christian Divinity, Prop. ii, pp. 35, 36.