Thomas Woolston SIX DISCOURSES ON THE MIRACLES OF OUR SAVIOUR _and_ DEFENCES OF HIS DISCOURSES 1727-1730 Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London [Illustration] 1979 A DISCOURSE ON THE MIRACLES OF OUR _SAVIOUR_, In VIEW of the Present Controversy between INFIDELS and 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 him next door to the _Star_, in _Aldermanbury_, and by the Booksellers of _London_, and _Westminster_, 1728. [Price One Shilling.] [Illustration] TO THE Right Reverend Father in God ~_EDMUND_~, Lord BISHOP of _London_. MY LORD, Upon no other View do I make a Dedication of this Discourse to your _Lordship_, then to submit it to your acute Judgment, expecting soon to hear of your Approbation or Dislike of it. If it so happen, that you highly approve of it, I beg of you to be sparing of your Commendations, least I should be puff'd up with them. In my _Moderator_, some Expressions dropt from my Pen about the Miracles of our Saviour, which, for want of Illustration then, gave your _Lordship_ some Offence, and brought upon me more Trouble: But, having now fully and clearly explain'd my self out of the Fathers, I hope you'll be reconciled to me; and as you are a Lover of Truth, will, against Interest and Prejudice, yield to the Force of it. Whether your Prosecution of me, for the _Moderator_, was just and reasonable, I'll not dispute here, having already expostulated that Matter with you in several Letters, to which you would not condescend to give me any Answer. For what Reason you was silent, is best known to your self. But, in my own Vindication, I hope, I may publish without Offence, that your taking me for an _Infidel_, was such a Mistake as I thought no _Scholar_ could have made; and the Injury done to my Reputation and low Fortunes, by the Prosecution, so considerable, that the least I expected from your _Lordship_, was a courteous Excuse, if not an ample Compensation, for it.