his Family in the Ark, the confusion of tongues at the building of _Babel_, the fecundity of _Sarah_ being old and barren, the passage of the children of _Israel_ over the red Sea and over _Jordan_, the standing still of the Sun in the battel of _Joshuah_, its going back in the dial of _Ahaz_, its eclipse at our Saviours suffering, the preservation of _Daniel_ in the Den of the Lions, and of the three companions of _Daniel_ in the fiery furnace, the preserving _Jonas_ in the belly of the Whale, the raising up of the dead, and the curing of the Man born blind, and all the rest of those most true and wonderful miracles wrought by our blessed Saviour and his Apostles. 2. The assumption of the Syllogism is thus proved. It is the part of the same power to change the order of nature, and to create things that were not existent, and so the mutation of the order of nature is a certain kind of new creation. But Satan hath not power, by which he can create things that as yet had no existence, as all persons of reason must needs confess. From whence it must follow that Satan hath not power to change the order of nature, and consequently that he cannot work true and real miracles. 3. The working of true miracles is only a proper attribute of God, and incommunicable to any creaturely power, for the Text saith: _Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doth wondrous things_. And again, _thou art the God that dost wonders_. And these two things the changing of the order of nature, and creation S. _Paul_ attributeth to God as only proper to him: _God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things that be not, as though they were_. Upon which _Beza_ gives this note: _Eo qui vitæ restituit. Apud quem jam sint quæ alioqui reipsa non sunt, ut qui vel uno verbo quidvis possit ex nihilo efficere._ [Sidenote: _Vid. Rolloc. in Thess._ 2.] But if it be objected that though Satan and his Angels of themselves, and by their own proper power, do not work true miracles, yet may not God work real miracles by them, as he did by the Prophets, Apostles and his Ministers? It is answered: That the wonders which are wrought by Satan, do tend to that end, that they might confirm lies against God and his glory. But God doth not accommodate his power, to confirm lies, contrary to his glory, and against himself. Therefore Satan by the power of God, as his Minister, doth not work true miracles, for God doth use the faln Angels as executioners of his wrath and judgments, for the afflicting and punishing of men, but when God worketh any thing for the good of mankind, either in Soul or Body, he doth not use Devils as his Ministers, but the good and blessed Angels, who are ministring spirits sent forth for the good of those that shall be heirs of Salvation.