(158) ble. What Infallible might then is it that we muff firfl believe the Pope to be, before we believe him to be Pope ? To what impudence will interest and faction car- ry men? I will again recite the words of an honefl Jefuit, o feph. AcoJta de tempor. novif. li. 3. C. 3. C" To all the " miracles ofAntichrif}, though he do great ones, the " Church fhall boldly oppofe thebeliefof theScriptures " Andby the inexpugnable tef}imony of this truth, iliall bymost clear light expel all his juglings as Clouds ----- " Signs are given to Infidels ; Scriptures to Believers and therefore the primitive Church abounded with "miracles, when Infidels were to be called : But the " laft ,when the faithful are already called, (hall refs more " on the Scripture than on miracles : yea I will boldly " fay, that all miracles are. vain and empty, unlefs they " be approved by the Scripture ; that is, have a Do- `&rine conform to the Scripture. But the Scripture g` it felf is of it felfa moll firm argument oftruth. obj. "But he grants that Infidels had miracles. Anf. He lived long in the weft-Indies among them, and in his Treat. of the Conveyf: Ind; andhis Hift. Ind. he pro- feffeth that the Ignorance, Drunkennefs and Wicked- nefs ofthe Roman Priefis there, was the great hinder- ance of their Ccnverfion ; but that Miracles there were none. God had not given them there any fuch gift. Once more, Did the Miracle which 1hyræus de Demo- niacis, p. 76. reciteth out-of Profper, that [A perron par. ffed by the Devil w& cured by drinking the wine in the Eu- charif] confirmthePopesReligion, Whohathcafl out the Cup or the Proteffants that ufe it ? XXXII. rhou;h -SsPaúlfay,' Let every Soul be fubjea to
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