Thomas Woolston
SIX DISCOURSES
ON THE MIRACLES
OF OUR SAVIOUR
and
DEFENCES
OF HIS DISCOURSES
1727-1730
Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London
1979
A
DISCOURSE
ON THE
MIRACLES
OF OUR
SAVIOUR,
In View of the PresentControversy between Infidelsand Apostates.
—Nostrum est tantus componere Lites.
The Fifth Edition.
By Tho. Woolston, B. D. sometime
Fellow of Sidney-College in Cambridge.
LONDON:
Printed for the Author, and Sold by himnext door to the Star, in Aldermanbury,and by the Booksellers of London, andWestminster, 1728.
[Price One Shilling.]
TO THE
Right Reverend Father in God
EDMUND,
Lord Bishop of London.
My Lord,
pon no other Viewdo I make a Dedicationof this Discourse toyour Lordship, then tosubmit it to your acuteJudgment, expecting soon to hearof your Approbation or Dislike of it.If it so happen, that you highlyapprove of it, I beg of you to besparing of your Commendations,least I should be puff'd up withthem.
In my Moderator, some Expressionsdropt from my Pen about theMiracles of our Saviour, which, forwant of Illustration then, gave yourLordship some Offence, and broughtupon me more Trouble: But, havingnow fully and clearly explain'dmy self out of the Fathers, I hopeyou'll be reconciled to me; and asyou are a Lover of Truth, will, againstInterest and Prejudice, yieldto the Force of it.
Whether your Prosecution of me,for the Moderator, was just and reasonable,I'll not dispute here, havingalready expostulated that Matterwith you in several Letters, towhich you would not condescendto give me any Answer. For whatReason you was silent, is best knownto your self. But, in my own Vindication,I hope, I may publishwithout Offence, that your takingme for an Infidel, was such a Mistake[Pg v]as I thought no Scholar couldhave made; and the Injury done tomy Reputation and low Fortunes,by the Prosecution, so considerable,that the least I expected from yourLordship, was a courteous Excuse,if not an ample Compensation, forit.
As to the Expediency of prosecutingInfidels for their Writings(in whose Cause I am the far