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    t have such to know that the person principally concerned Was never fond of publishing it . That he had no new doctrine or worship to be promoted by it , and that upon deliberate thoughts could never look upon it as any the least evidence of his interest in the complacential

    love of God ; since hypocrites , reprobates and cast-aways have been more honourably and usefully employed . But if Mr . Wilson should insist upon nay thoughts on the providence— --For my part I always thought in the instance before us there was a manifest deviation of providence from the common track , and that

    miracles ( though I do not call this one ) are not wholly ceased . It is true , the inspired canon is completed and sufficiently confirmed , and therefore miracles are rarely to be expected , it was so under the Old Testament dispensation . Their laws and worship beings under the first Temple , settled and supported , miracles were very rare under the second Only

    they had the spiiit of prophecy for some few years , and water , of miraculous healing operation , in their most degenerate state . We allow the" gospel needs no further vindication of this kind ; but may not God now and then vindicate hia providence by extraordinary judgments or mercies ? Should God make no examples of notorious offenders , men would call

    his patience if not his providence into question . Who can say that miracles have ceasecf , who have experienced the same greatness of power in their conversion which was manifested in our Lord ' s resurrection ?

    That word in the prophet , Mr . Polhill says , " I will put my spirit within you , and cause you to walk in my statutes' * is as much a word of power as that which made the world . For my part ,

    to see a poor , hard , dry , cold , insensible , inactive sinner , to become a child of Abraham , is as great , if not a greater miracle to me than to see a pebble with all these properties to rise up and be ' eome a man . And as we arc not without instances in the kingdom of Grace , so we are not without instances miraculous in the kingdom of Nature , of which I question not you have a large treasury . Yet give me leave to throw in a mite or two : what shall we say to jytr . Bainham ' s bed of roses ? Mr ^ . Honey wood ' s Venice Gkss ? Mr . Fiavell ' s Mystery of Providence , and remarkable sea deliverances ? Bishop Hall ' s Account of Cooke , Tom , ILL page

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    9 66 ? Young ' s Account of the French Protestant Maid , in his compendious history . I confess I pay no great deference to the last author , yet 1 believe this account to be true , which he say * was one of the greatest miracles known in this last au ; e . Could this point be

    once gained , I see no better Way of answering other questions than ?> y asking of questions , especially if such as may help opposerr . to answer their own . If it be asked 3 why the money to be given in charity must be fetched from the hilltop ? 1 answer , why tbe money to pay tribute be fetched from the sea-side ? If

    it be asked how came the money in such a public place as the high-road ? f would ask , how came the money in so private a place as the fish ' s mouth ? It is certain God is a free agent , and a great deal v may be placed on the score of sovereignty . But if it be further asked , why God should employ a person so mean rather than others ? J would still ask ,

    why a woman , a widow woman , and one in distress , and one that was a Sidonian , before the widows in Israel ? Nay , that an unclean ravenous bird should feed a prophet ? If any should enquire after the impulse—I must own myself

    very incapable of discoursing concern * ing the rise , nature , and end of impulses ; but do verily believe that spirits unembodied may have a very near access to and intimate connection with those

    immersed in matter , and chat we may be assured of some things in ourselves that are inexplicable , and are a great deal better apprehended than described . As to the issue , 1 found my concern and certainty respecting enjoyment or disappointment pretty nearly equal ; they differed only in kind . The flat

    denial I found in my own breast , with the subsequent one on the hill , I place upon this footing—that I was not at any time to put the money to common use , or proclaim how 1 camtt by it ; which restriction I looked upon as the tenure , and the privilege once forfeited , no wonder it was immediately remanded .

    I am indeed undeserving the respect given me in your letter , but comforted with your piayers ; may they be effectual to the ends mentioned , tnan which nothing can more rejoice the heart of Your much obliged , sincerely affectionate , poor and unworthy brother in the gospel , Bridgenorth , JNO . SING , March 19 , 173 8-9 ,

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    Original Letter of Mr . John Sing ' s . 35 ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/3/