Christ and pretending to be so. The one
party can do miracles, not the others. For it is clear of the one party
that
they are opposed to the truth, but not of the others; and thus miracles
are
clearer.
837. That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not
require miracles to prove it.
838. Jesus Christ performed miracles, then the apostles, and the first
saints in great number; because the prophecies not being yet accomplished,
but in the process of being accomplished by them, the miracles alone bore
witness to them. It was foretold that the Messiah should convert the
nations. How could this prophecy be fulfilled without the conversion of
the
nations? And how could the nations be converted to the Messiah, if they
did
not see this final effect of the prophecies which prove Him? Therefore,
till
He had died, risen again, and converted the nations, all was not
accomplished; and so miracles were needed during all this time. Now they
are
no longer needed against the Jews; for the accomplished prophecies
constitute a lasting miracle.
839. "Though ye believe not Me
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