The Baptist needed no miracle to attest his right of calling sinners to repentance.

See 'Exodus' iv.

10.
Ib.pp.346, 7.
This sentiment, that miracles are not the proper evidences of doctrinal truth, is, assuredly, the decision of the Truth itself; as is obvious from many passages in Scripture.

We have seen that the design of the miracles of Moses, as external performances, was not to instruct the Israelites in spiritual subjects, but to make them obedient subjects of a peculiar species of political state.

And though the miracles of Jesus Christ collaterally served as testimonies to his character, he repeatedly intimates that this was not their main design.