...controversy with the clergy, occasioned by a publication, entitled, " A free enquiry into the mira* culous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the...Christian Church, from the earliest ages, through several succeeding ages ; tending to shew, that we have no sufficient reason to believe, .upon the authority...

...introductory discourse." Soon after (Dec. 1748) appeared the Doctor's larger work, with this title, " A dec inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed...Christian church from the earliest ages, through, »e»eral successive apes." The free inquiry was productive ol a cotumversy in which the principal...

...Middleton ; containing all his writings, except the life of Cicero. 4 vols. London, 1752. — 174, Q. A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are...subsisted in the Christian church, from the earliest ages; by which it is shown, that no such powers were continued to the church after the days of the apostles....

...therefore, published, in } 749, the larger work which he had promised, under the title of " Д free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers, which are supposed to...earliest Ages, through several successive Centuries," &o« quarto. In this work he opens all the par, ticular proofs, which induced him finally to embrace...

...its title; which is, " A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers which are supposed to have subsided in the Christian Church from the earliest Ages through several successive centuries." Dr. M. died 1750. M1GN ARD (PETER)firtt painter to the king of France, and director and chancellor...

...performances," 1748; and, in December the same year, he published his larger work, with this title, 23.-" A free inquiry into the Miraculous powers which are...earliest ages, through several successive centuries." Innumerable answerers now appeared against him ; two of whom, namely, Dodwell and Church, distinguished...

...undique colligeret, ad nuuuin babebat Bibliothecas Cantabrigicnses, libris eas quidem plurimis rt. supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church...earliest Ages, through several successive Centuries*." Innumerable answerers now appeared against him ; two of whom, Dodwell and Church, exquisitissiniis...

...colligeret, ad manuin habcbat Bibliothecas Cantabrigienses, libris eas quidem plurimis c( esqiiisupposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church from the...earliest Ages, through several successive Centuries*." Innumerable answerers now appeared against him ; two of whom, Dodwell and Church, fxquisitissiniis...

...Weston's Inquiry into the Rejection of the Christian Miracles by the Heathens," vi 471. Miraculous Powers supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church from the earliest Ages, &c. Dr. Middleton's " Free Inquiry into," v 416. letters of Warburton relative to it, i 601. v 417....

...Mr. Delaune's Eixwn ffijiou, and Plea, were republished in 1704. This work is entitled a Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers, which are supposed to...the Christian Church, from the earliest ages through the several successive centuries. As a precursor to this he first published his spirited Introductory...