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consider th-e matter with attention and impar- ^^\^^- 
tiality, will perceive the strongest reasons for 
embracing the opinion of those who attribute 
this event to the almighty interposition of the 
Supreme Being ; nor do the arguments offered 
by some to prove it the effect of natural causes, 
or those alleged by others to persuade us that 
it was the result of artifice and imposture, con- 
tain any thing that may not be refuted with the 
utmost facility. " Monies words are still more 
emphatical. Speaking of the miracle, he says% 
*' It is so extraordinary in all its circumstances, 
and so fully attested by all the Christian and 
by Heathen historians of that age, that I do not 
see with what forehead any man can question the 
truth of it/' 
After all that has been said, let the reader bear 
carefully in mind, that the prophecy of Christ, 
existing in full blaze, needs not any support from 
the establishment of Julians miraculous discom- 
fiture \ The ruins of the temple, and of the 
(4) See Jfo7/le's Posthumous Works vol. II. p. 101. Land. J 726. 
(5) Yet even thi? is attested by Jour contemporary writers ; by 
Ammianus MnrceUinus; by Chrysostom ; by Gre^orif of Naziameu; 
and by Aaibrose, bishop of flrdatt. The author, however, has endea- 
voured to keep this out of the discussion ; his object being solely to 
prove that Julian \Tas discomfited; whether by a natural or by ta frtc 
tcrnatural cause, others may dctein\ii)c. 
