The Purposeless, Isolated Miracle
A sporadic miracle I would never believe. Though old Dr John M‘Lean even were to take us all down to the graveyard and raise up a man who looked like Jonathan Edwards, it would weigh nothing with me. A purposeless, isolated miracle proves nothing. The miracles of Scripture are not mere addenda to revelation, but are themselves media of the communication of truth.
Princetoniana
p. 185–186
Charles Adamson Salmond. Princetoniana. Charles and a. A. Hodge: With Class and Table Talk of Hodge, the Younger, Etc. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1888.