SECT. XVIII. The objection, of miracles not being seen now, answered.

NEITHER is there any reason why any one should object against what has been said, because no such miracles are now seen, nor any such predictions heard. For it is sufficient to prove a Divine Providence, that there ever have been such. Which being once established, it will follow, that we ought to think God Almighty forbears them now, for as wise and prudent reasons as he before did them. Nor is it fit that the laws given to the universe for the natural course of things, and that what is future might be uncertain, should always, or without good reason, be suspended, but then only, when there was a sufficient cause: as there was at that time when the worship of the true God was banished almost out of the world, being confined only to a small corner of it, viz. Judæa; and was to be defended from the wickedness which surrounded it, by frequent assistance: or when the Christian religion, concerning which we shall afterwards particularly treat, was, by the determination of God, to be spread all over the world.