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the laws of Nature stand to His own Will — has 

 at least an infinite knowledge of those laws, and 

 an infinite power of putting them to use — then 

 miracles lose every element of inconceivability. 

 In respect to the greatest and highest of all 

 — that restoration of the breath of life which is 

 not more mysterious than its original gift — there 

 is no answer to the question which Paul asks, 

 " Why should it be thought a thing incredible 

 by you that God should raise the dead ? " 



This view of miracles is well expressed by 

 Principal Tulloch : — 



"The stoutest advocate of interference can 

 mean nothing more than that the Supreme Will 

 has so moved the hidden springs of nature that a 

 new issue arises on given circumstances. The 

 ordinary issue is supplanted by a higher issue. 

 The essential facts before us are a certain set of 

 phenomena, and a Higher Will moving them. 

 How moving them ? is a question for human 

 definition ; but the answer to which does not and 

 cannot affect the Divine meaning of the change. 

 Yet when we reflect that this Higher Will is 

 everywhere reason and wisdom, it seems ajuster 



