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By the Right Reverend
ZACHARY, Lord Bishop of Bangor.

LONDON:

Printed by and for J. WATT s; and Sold by him at the
Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields.
And by B. DoD, at the Bible and Key in Ave-Mary-Lane,
near Stationers-Hall.

12400

MDCCXLIX.

[Price 1 s. 64]

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The PREFACE.

T is now above twenty Years, fince the following Sheets were firft printed. They were intended as an Answer to fome of the principal Parts of Mr. Woolfton's Six Difcourfes on the Miracles of our Saviour, &c. which were published in 1727 and 1728, and in which he treated thofe Miracles after the most ludicrous and outrageous Manner, without any Regard to Truth, and even to the Appearance of it, either in his Criticifms, or his Reasonings, or his Quotations. Such Writings Then alarmed all Good Christians, and feveral Learned ones employed their Pens to take off any ill Impreffions, which (it was feared) his bold Attempts might make on the Unlearned and Unstable. At that time appeared in Print the Four Parts of this Treatife, The Miracles of Jefus Vindicated; which have therefore more of a controverfial Turn in them, than may be Neceffary or Pleafing at present to a Reader, who has never perused those wild and extravagant Performances of Mr. Woolfton. However the Printer, now finding a Call for a fifth Impreffion of them, has furnish'd the Author with an Occafion of reviewing them. In feveral Paffages what feem'd perfonal, and now-a

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days unfeasonable, has been omitted; that the Arguments and Proofs may be the better attended to: And fome few additional Notes have been inferted, which may help to give a farther Light and Strength to what had been before advanced. If this Treatife has already proved, or shall hereafter prove, of Ufe to fupport the Truth of Chrif tianity, the Author thinks his Labour to have been well beftowed in the Service of that divine Being, to whofe Honour and Glory his Life is dedicated, and his Studies fhall ever be directed.

St. Martin's, Westmin

fter, May 1, 1749.

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