new dispensation, in the power of working miracles
on the part of the promulgator, p. 218
1. The reasons why the Patriarchal dispensation was
introduced without the sanction of miracles, p. 219
1. They were unnecessary on the part of Adam, at
the time of its first promulgation, p. 219
2. They were equally unnecessary on the part of
i Noah, at the time of its second promulgation after
in the deluge, p. 220
3. Nor yet were they at all necessary to authorize its
3. reformation in the days of Abraham'; when, after
it had been stripped of superstitious vanities, it
began to be confined to a single family, p. 220 · i?
4. Hence we have not a single miracle on record,
as performed by a human agent, prior to the abro-
2. But, at the time of the Reformation, no miracles