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respecting them . I , therefore , intreat you to iuform me , as I am very desirous of knowing , whether there have beeu any records of miracles in the
Christian church since the Apostolic age ; who were the authors of them , and by what tradition they are supported ? Whether they were frequent and continued to the time of
Constantine or later ?* Also , who was Thaumaturgus , and from what act he derived that high title which has come down to us ? t I do not ask for a list of all the miracles which occur in
ecclesiastical writers , but whether it appears from credible histories , that there have been really such miracles , whether few or many , and how long the gift of working them continued in the church ?
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In thfa year , I 692 , Mr . Locke visited Cambridge , as appears from one of his MS . Letters in the British Museum . It ft dated from Bishop Stortford , 13 th May , and addressed to his friend Mr . Clarke , M . P . for Taunton . Mr . L . says ,
" I am got thus far homewards from Cambridge , where I have been for two days , drawn thither by business that was necessary to be dispatched « X staid there less time than I could well have spent there , and was much importuned to . " In the same letter he thus describes
his dissatisfaction with the practice of medicine then prevailing . ** The consultation you would have me to be at , about the health of our infirm friend , 1 know not what to say to y you know I wish him very well , but my notions in physic are so different from the method which now obtains , that I am like to do little - ¦ - ~ - . 1 -- ¦ i- -.. ^__ ___ . . _
* Mr . Locke was now probably engaged ill writing his " Third Letter concerning Toleration , " which is dated June 20 , 1692 . In that letter he says , cl He who would build his faith or reasonings upon miracles , delivered by church historians , will find
Ofcuse to go no farther tlian the apostles ' time , or else not to stop at ConstantineV ^ Third Letter i Ch x . Works . Folio , II . 474 * See also Middleten on this passage . Free Inquiry , Pref . p . v . Works , quarto , 1 T § 2 . I . -f- See an Account of Gregory , tbe W&nder ^ worker ^ in MiddletonVWdiks 1 . 13 , w « dL 104- ~ l 22 or Lardncr , III . 25—57 .
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good , Jnd not being of the college , czii make no other figure there , but of an unskilful empiric * and , no doubt , any thing I could offer would seem as strange to his physicians , as the way
you tell me they take ; which seems strange to me . But as every one ' s hypothesis is , sp is his reason disposed to judge , both of disease and medicines /'
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No . 20-Jolin Locke to Philip A Liniborch . London , June SO , 1692 . My EXCELLENT FRIEND , Oar receipt of your letter , dated 27 th June , I went this day iuto the city , and immediately waited on the
Archbishop [ Tillotson } . I no sooner mentioned your name , than he acknowledged having received from you your disputation with the Jew [ Orobio ] , excused his silence from his interrupted health , weak eyes and other
hindrances , which had prevented him from yet completing his perusal . Fie praised much both the work and its author , and acknowledged that he owed you thanks , which he had not yet offered you .
He considered the History of the Holy Office as now peculiarly seasonable . He read with great pleasure , and highly approved , the Table of Chapters ; and when 1 explained to him your design as to the Dedication , he discovered such courtesv and
respect in his manner and language , that had you been present you must have been satisfied that it would not be disagreeable to him . Therefore , as I know the modesty of the mani and highly approve your plan , first
send over the Dedication that he may read it before it is published . I will shew it to him , because I am sure he will deem it respectful y and , if he should wish any thing altered , I will inform you .
In the mean time he told me , that he had a book , published in Portugal , concerning an Act of the Inquisition in that country , in the beginning of which is a curious collection of papal bulls and other documents , by which the power of the Holy Office is defined and sanctioned- He could not recollect the name of the author , and though he searched for the book , fais library not being yet in order , it could
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356 The Correspondence between Locke and Limborch , translated .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/12/
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