The British police. obviously do know what is taking place. Besides my
interpretations. of what individual officers have said which forces that
conclusion, it would be inconceivable for them to be. unaware of something
on. this scale.
If they. know, then they will know that the abusers have broken laws in the
UK and abroad. Recently the. UK introduced laws against electronic spying
which carry a penalty of several years jail if caught. If. the police know
illegal harassment is taking place,. and do nothing about it, then they are
failing in their. responsibilities.
Last Easter (1995) I went into the local police. station in London and spoke
to an officer about the. harassment against me. But I couldn't provide
tangible evidence; what people said, in many cases years ago, is. beyond
proof, and without something. to support my statements I cannot expect a
police officer to. take the complaint seriously.
The current situation with regard to. the police is not one which allows a
breakthrough in dealing with the problem. On the one hand, most. individual
officers at a local police station. may not know about the ongoing assaults,
so a complaint at that. level will not yield results. Yet the police as an
organisation do know of the harassment, and they. must be aware that a
complaint has been made at a police station. So it is. clearly their duty to
take preventative. action against the continuing molestation, but because
the criminals are operating on behalf of a state. agency, the police are not
carrying out. their duty.
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While Jesus Christ was with them, He could sustain them. But, after that, if
He did not appear to them, who inspired them to act?
SECTION XIII: THE MIRACLES
803. The beginning.--Miracles enable us to judge of doctrine, and doctrine
enables us to judge of miracles.
There are false miracles and true. There must be a distinction, in order to
know them; otherwise they would be useless. Now they are not useless; on the
contrary, they are fundamental. Now the rule which is given to us must be
such that it does not destroy the proof which the true miracles give of the
truth, which is the chief end of the miracles.
Moses has given two rules: that the prediction does not come to pass (Deut.
18.), and that they do not lead to idolatry (Deut. 13.); and Jesus Christ
one.
If doctrine regulates miracles, miracles are useless for doctrine.
If miracles regulate...
Objection to the rule.--The distinction of the times. One rule during the
time of Moses, another at present.
804. Miracle.--It is an effect, which exceeds the natural power of the means
which are employed for it; and what is not a miracle is an effect, which
does not exceed the natural power of the means which are employed for it.
Thus, those who heal by invocation of the devil do not work a miracle; for
that does not exceed the natural power of the devil. But...
805. The two fundamentals; one inward, the other outward; grace and
miracles; both supernatural.
806. Miracles and truth are necessary, because it is n