Excerpt from A Free Inquiry Into the Miraculous Powers: Which Are Supposed to Have Subsisted in the Christian Church, From the Earliest Ages Through Several Successive Centuries The event has anfwered, not only to my expectation, but to my withes: for notwith fianding all which has been publithed againfl: it, from the Prefs, the Pulpit, and the Theo logical Schools, the general approbation, which it has every where received from thofe, whofe authority I chiefly value, has given me the utmoft encouragement to per fevere in the profecuti'on of my argument, as being of the greatef'r importance to the Pro tettant religion, and the fole expedient, which can effectually fecure it, from being gradually undermined, and finally fubverted by the ef forts of Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.