This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... The generous.reception given-co my book on the Parables, has encqugei me to.issuo this companion volume on the Miraclcs_ of our Saviour, the rather, as there seemed to be room for a fresh treatment of these suggestive themes. The "Notes" of Trench, like everything which came frora their author's hand, are able, thorough, scholarly, and will always hold a very high plaoc an the estimation of students. But the. homiletic eleiaentin them is meagre, and in these days vrhen the question how to turn biblical subjects to the best account, in the pulpit, for the meeting of the necessities of our modern life, is attracting so much attention, there is a call for something more direct and practical than the archbishop has supplied. The recent volume of Professor Laidlaw, of Edinburgh, is evidence of that call and will do much to meet it; but before it was issued the manuscript of the following pages had passed out of my hands, and arrangements had been made for their publication. On such a subject, however, there is no competition, but only co-operation between brethren. My aim throughout has been expository and practical rather than apologetic. What appeared to be needful in the latter department I have put into the introductory chapter, but in the remainder of the book I have given more prominence to the parabolic teaching of the Miracles as "signs," than to their reality and evidential value as works of Divine power. Those who saw them performed might bo most impressed by the latter, but to us now the former has become their most interesting feature and we have come to regard them as forming themselves a part of the Revelation which at first they introduced and endorsed. We do not lully interpret them, unless.we take this part of their sig . nificance into accou...