ter Authority, yet that is, because more People are concern'd, and come to the knowledge of them; and they who have seen more, are better affur'd that their Senses were not impos'd upon, than if they had feen but one ; for if they were certainly perfwaded, that one was certainly wrought, without fraud, the feeing more wrought by the fame Perfon, would give him no greater Authority with them, than he had before. Thus, if you or I should have feen our Child raised from the Dead, we fhould as fully believe the Person who did it, as if we fhould fee the fame Man raise

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alfo five more Children from the Dead; but then this Perfon would gain more Authority with other People, who were related to thefe five Children, or were Spectators of these great Works. fee I take the Liberty you gave me of making what Objections I can ; but it is, that I may receive the greater Satisfaction from your Anfwers, for it is Truth alone I feek. What Credit therefore could the Miracles of Moses give him, when the Magicians wrought the fame, in Oppofition to his Authority, if three Miracles argue as great a Power as thirty, and those three were attested by the fame

fame Senfes that the thirty were?

B. I cannot, I affure you, get over all thefe Difficul. ties, with as much Eafe as other People do, or rather think they do. If those, which the Sorcerers wrought, were true Miracles, they were either wrought by the Power of God, or of the Devil; if by the Power of God, then God wrought true Miracles to confront the Authority of Mofes, whofe Authority he, at the fame time, establish'd by other true Miracles, and fo will be found acting in Oppofition to his own Defigns. If by the Power of the Devil, then can the D.

vil work true Miracles in Oppofition to God, and how fhall we come to know which are of God, and which are of the Devil, and confequently, how shall they attest to the truth of any Doctrines, if Powers fo oppofite can work them? And on the other hand, if the Miracles wrought by the Sorcerers, were only Cheats and meer Illufions of the Senfes, how fhall we do to diftinguish betwixt true Miracles,, and appearing ones only, fince the Senfes, by which alone we can judge, may be fo cafily impos'd upon, as to take Appearances for true and real Miracles? Either of thefe Suppofitions, carry

Difficulties along with them. I can only promise to do my beft to clear what I can of them. I maintain then, in the first place, that the Devil himself cannot work a true Miracle independently on God, or by his own innate Power; and this, for Reafons be fore laid down, page 10. Secondly, I affure my felf, that He can impose no false ones, on our Senfes, if we exercise them as we may and should, and take that care, and use that circumfpection, that it is in our power to do: Because it would be the fame thing, for God to permit the Devil to work falfe and cheating Miracles, and by them, to impose upon D 4

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