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Excerpt from Christian Evidences Viewed in Relation to Modern Thought: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1877 on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury
The confusion which has been introduced into the controversy about miracles by the use of ambiguous terms, 54. The distinction between the laws and the forces of nature, 57. The mod/as operandi of God in the performance Of a miracle ought not to form a portion Of its definition, 59. The question, whether, under the term nature, man and his free agency are meant to be included, all-important in this controversy, 61. Man capable Of modifying the order of nature by imparting a new direction to its forces, 63. The laws of nature not violated, nor its forces suspended by the performance of a miracle, 65. The distinction between God's modus operandi in his ordinary provi dence and in performing miracles, unknown in the Old Testament, 68. The New Testament does not represent the forces of nature as suspended during the performance of miracles, 69. The theism Of the Bible represents God not only as standing external to the universe, but as immanent in its forces, 71.
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