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#13 [Manuscript] on miracles / [Isaac Newton].
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Pag 5 lin 7- <undecipherable> released & confirmed & by these <undecipherable> doth remiss release & confirm unto the said Cath. Barton (in her actuall possession now Bring by virtue of a Bargain - - - - & By force of the statute made for transferring of uses into possession) the said Office of Keeper & the custody of the said Park &c
Philosophy is not to <undecipherable>
For Miracles are so called not because they are the works of God But because they
happen seldom & for that reason create wonder. If they should happen constantly
according to certain laws inprest <undecipherable> upon the nature of things, they
or miracles
would be no longer wonders^but might be considered in Philosophy as a
part of the Phenomena of Nature [notwithstanding their being the effects
of Gods laws impressed upon Nature By the powers of God] notwithstanding
have been explored not be because their causes an unknown to us But Because
By giving that name to the specific qualities of things,
a stop Has been put to all inquiry into the causes of if [undecipherable] could
not be known because the grand Philosophy [undecipherable] was able to find [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] the signification of the words that for may make use of
them in exploring (I do not say confusing) then
Philosophy of Isaac Newton so
far as if reliable to the argument for proving a Deity
from the phenomena of nature. And as the