A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 79
79 be made manifest in his words. His miracles were also of a literary nature and he was sometimes vouchsafed knowledge beyond human intelligence, which filled even his enemies with wonder. Again, he healed the sick with his prayers, and he purified the thoughts of men. Very often men who desired to get rid of certain kinds of thoughts approached him with requests that he should pray for them and he prayed for them and those thoughts left them. Very often his prayers effected the release of captives or helped to remove causes of misery and trouble. Many of his miracles consisted in this that God disclosed the truth of his claims to his enemies and opponents in visions or by means of revelation, and they either accepted him or were condemned out of their own mouths. Many of his miracles consisted in this that whenever an enemy of his strove to humiliate him in a particular fashion, he was himself humiliated in the same fashion, and many of them died sudden deaths in a manner which could not be attributed to human agency. Many of his prophecies consisted in the reversal of the apparent laws of nature. Many of his miracles consisted of prophecies which were fulfilled. Many of his miracles consisted in the protection which God afforded him and his companions under dangerous circumstances. In short, his miracles were of diverse kinds and there are thousands of instances of each, and if each of them