SECT. XIII. And by miracles.

BUT the most certain proof of Divine Providence is from miracles, and the predictions we find in histories: it is true, indeed, that a great many of those relations are fabulous; but there is no reason to disbelieve those which are attested by credible witnesses to have been in their time, men whose judgment and integrity have never been called in question. For, since God is all-knowing and all-powerful, why should we think him not able to signify his knowledge or his resolution to act out of the ordinary course of nature, which is his appointment, and subject to his direction and government? If any one should object against this, that inferior intelligent agents may be the cause of them, it is readily granted; and this tends to make us believe it the more easily of God: beside, whatever of this nature is done by such beings, we conceive God does by them, or wisely permits them to do them; in the same manner as, in well regulated kingdoms, nothing is done otherwise than the law directs, but by the will of the supreme governor.