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falling when it was well with God, and thus a type.

Miracles prove the power which God has over hearts, by that which He
exercises over bodies.

The Church has never approved a miracle among heretics.

Miracles a support of religion: they have been the test of Jews; they have
been the test of Christians, saints, innocents, and true believers.

A miracle among schismatics is not so much to be feared; for schism, which
is more obvious than a miracle, visibly indicates their error. But, when
there is no schism and error is in question, miracle decides.

Si non fecissem quae alius non fecit.214 The wretches who have obliged us to
speak of miracles.

Abraham and Gideon confirm faith by miracles.

Judith. God speaks at last in their greatest oppression.

If the cooling of love leaves the Church almost without believers, miracles
will rouse them. This is one of the last effects of grace.

If one miracle were wrought among the Jesuits!

When a miracle disappoints the expectation of those in whose presence it
happens, and there is a disproportion between the state of their faith and
the instrument of the miracle, it ought--then to induce them to change. But
with you it is otherwise. There would be as much reason in saying that, if
the Eucharist raised a dead man, it would be necessary for one to turn a
Calvinist rather than remain a Catholic. But when it crowns the expectation,
and those, who hoped that God would bless the remedies, see themselves
healed without remedies.

The ungodly.--No sign has ever happened on the part of the devil without a
stronger sign on the part of God, or even without it having been foretold
that such would happen.

852. Unjust persecutors of those whom God visibly protects. If they reproach
you with your excesses, "they speak as the heretics." If they say that the
grace of Jesus Christ distinguishes us, "they are heretics." If they do
miracles, "it is the mark of their heresy."

Ezekiel. They say: These are the


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