13. One case where contrary experience lessens not the testimony.
Though the common experience and the
ordinary course of things have justly a mighty influence on the minds of men, to make them give or refuse credit
to anything proposed to their belief; yet there is one case, wherein the strangeness of the fact lessens not the assent
to a fair testimony given of it. For where such supernatural events are suitable to ends aimed at by Him who has
the power to change the course of nature, there, under such circumstances, that may be the fitter to procure belief,
by how much the more they are beyond or contrary to ordinary observation. This is the proper case of miracles,
which, well attested, do not only find credit themselves, but give it also to other truths, which need such
confirmation.