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 his presence of mind and ready wit to furnish specious answers and objections to such a requisition. He repeatedly affirms that miracles did not form a part of his mission, which was restricted to preaching the joys of Paradise and torments of Hell, together with the submission due to his character as an Ambassador from God: but when this would not satisfy the pertinacity of his objectors, insisting that God would send no man on such an errand with-