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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wonder_n	word_n	wrought_v	40	3	7.7710	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29671	The sacred and most mysterious history of mans redemption wherein is set forth the gracious administration of Gods covenant with man-kind, at all times, from the beginning of the world unto the end : historically digested into three books : the first setteth down the history from Adam to the blessed incarnation of Christ, the second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his baptisme ..., the third, from thence till his glorious coming to judgement / by Matthew Brookes ...	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4918; ESTC R11708	321,484	292

Devils and by their instigation wicked men have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and quoad rem substantiam rei they have done and can do miracles The enchanters of Egypt did the same things that Moses and Aaron did Exod. 7 12 22. for they cast down their rods and they became Serpents They turned the Rivers into blood They caused the frogs to come up and to cover the land of Egypt Exod. 8.7 ● 2 Thes 2.9 And the comming of Antichrist must be as St. Paul saith after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders With true miracles if the thing it self or substance of the thing be respected not in appearance only and by imposture he shall work miracles saith Hippolytus by cleansing the leapers by raising the paralytick by casting out Devils and it may be so but yet lying wonders because directed to an undue end and to av cuchlies Miracles therefore which are true miracles omnibus suis numeris partibus perfecta perfect in all parts and numbers True miracles and the causes of them The efficient cause and which are contradistinguished to lying miracles must be known and distinguished by the true and proper causes of them For first the efficient cause is God himself And God doth miracles two manner of wayes mediately or immediately Mediately by his servants the Prophets and Apostles and others also to whom the power of working miracles hath been concredited Hitherto refer all those miracles which Moses did in the land of Egypt in the red Sea and in the wilderness That Josuah divided the river Jordan to open a passage for the people of Israel into the land of promise That at the sound of the trumpets of rams hornes the walls of Hiericho fell flat to the ground That at his command the sun and the moon stood still for the space of a day That Elijah and Elisha raised the dead to life again Hitherto also are to be referred all those miracles which were done by the Apostles and primitive believers A gift which Christ gave unto his Church to serve for a time These signes shall follow them that believe S. Mar. 16.17 In my name they shall cast out Devils they shall speake with new tongues They shall take up Serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover 18. His immediate miracles are properly said to be the creation of the world the divine and wonderfull preservation of it but above all the redemption of all mankind by Christ In which work there are three sorts of miracles Some in persona mediatoris in the person of the mediator himself such is that union of natures which is not naturall S. Joh. 1.14 the word made flesh God and man hypostatically united in one person the hypostaticall union Some propter personam mediatoris for the person of the mediators sake Such was that wonderfull birth which was of a woman Isa 7.14 without a man and she a pure virgin too Some ab ipsa persona mediatoris from the person of the mediator himself and such were all those miracles which Christ did comming in the flesh by divine dispensation S. Joh. 20.30 31. which are written by the Evangelists and many more then are written of him The matter of Christ his miracles in qua in which they were it was the divers miseries and calamities of men The matter of Christs miracles sickness blindness lameness hunger death and such like for the amoving whereof miracles were done by curing the sick by giving sight to the blind by restoring limbs to the lame by feeding the hungrie by raising the dead The matter of his miracles ex qua from which they did proceed it was his own divine power the true and proper cause whereby all his divine miracles were effected S. Luc. 11.20 The matter of his miracles circa quam about which they were wrought it was the kingdom of Satan which he would destroy and the sins of men which he would remit Satan like a strong man armed kept his palace and his goods were in peace till Christ a stronger then he came upon him and took from him all his armour wherein he trusted even all his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and all his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his lying wonders and miracles by his own miracles whereby he was declared mightily to be the son of God and so divided his spoils S. Luc. 11.22 as to deliver the sinfull souls of men out of his captivity The formall cause of his divine miracles quoad modum operandi The formal cause in as much as concerneth the manner of operation is very various Sometimes he wrought his miracles by curing diseases only by his word S. Mat. 9.2 S. Mat. 8.13 if the party were present as the paralytick man Or if the party were absent as the Centurions servant Sometimes he wrought his miracles by curing diseases by his word together with a touch of his hand as in the leper S. Mat. 8.13 and sometimes by permitting the sick and diseased to touch him as once he did the woman who was diseased of an issue of blood twelve years Sometimes he maketh use of means and things naturall S. Mat. 9.22 for effecting of his divine miracles above nature For once with five loaves and two fishes only he fed above five thousand men besides women and children so that they did all eat and were filled Once also with seven loaves and a few little fishes S. Mat. 14.20 he fed about four thousand men besides women and children so that they did all eat and were filled S. Mat. 15.37 If it were naturall to be fed and satisfied with bread and fish as by means and things naturall the miracle was in the proportion it was miraculous to feed and satisfie so great a multitude with so small a quantity Sometimes he maketh use of means and things not naturall or proper it was when he made clay and annointed the eyes of him that was born blind who having washed in the pool of Siloam receiv'd his sight S. Joh. 9.7 Christ his miracles in respect of the finall cause or ends for the which they were wrought were for two purposes The finall cause for the glory of God and for the utility and profit of men I say first for the glory of God For we read in the Gospell that when he had cured him that was sick of the palsie and had also remitted his sins saying Thy sins be forgiven thee Howsoever some of the Scribes said within themselves This man blasphemeth because he attributed that unto himself being but a mere man as they supposed which belongeth only unto God namely to forgive sin according to that of the Prophet I Isa 43.25 even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake yet when the