Of Miracles, and Their Use
By “miracles” are signified the admirable works of God: and therefore they are also called “wonders.” And because they are for the most part done for a signification of His commandment, in such occasions, as without them, men are apt to doubt, (following their private natural reasoning,) what He hath commanded, and whatnot, they are commonly, in Holy Scripture, called “signs,” in the same sense as they are called by the Latins ostenta and portenta , from showing and fore-signifying that which the Almighty is about to bring to pass.