452 e1)eJataan oftbelipoca1ypfe. C-4 F.13. p rofie with a kiffe. There was not a man in all the ArmyofEudon that was killed or wounded in the battel whichhe fought againft the Saracens, whofe hap it was to light upon the leaft (crap of that Sponge that was bleflèd byGre;o1y the z. The body ofForm fus that was brought out ofTiber into the ChurchofS.Petcr,was faluted and adorned by theImages of the Saints in the entring in thereof into the Temple. A fnow-white `Dove with a golden neck fate upon the right shoulder of Jregory the 6. while he was at afhe. And when he was to beburied in the ChurchofS.Pérer,the bars and locks oftheTemple did not flay till the Sexton came to remove and unlock them, but skipped back oftheir own accord,when his dead corpfe was brought thither. A certain woman that was lame, was healed bydrinking of that water withwhich Vrbansts the fecond had wafhed hip hands after Maffe. There are an infinite company of fuch as thefe, both oh' and new wonders,which the Pope ofRonne boafts of.For they are both of themof like force to confirm his authority. And that did Zachary the Pope know very well, who tranflated into the Greek-tongue the four books of Dialogues, which Crccry the Great made, touching themiracles ofthe Fathers,that fothe miraculous power of the Popes might be made known to the Grecians, as well as to the Latins. But will force fay, there be others befides the Popes, that have wrought as many wonders as they. It is true indeed,but they be filch as are all ofthem the Popes Vafíàls ; fo that whatfoever miracles are done by any of them, they are referred to the maintaining, preferving, and increafingof his dignity,as to their Centre. Whereupon all thefe that are done by his adherents, ';are worthily laid to be his, whofe honour alone they ferve to eftablifh. So that he made fire to come doWn from heaven. Having fttnmarily declared his miraculous power, nowhe defcendeth to tome particu- lar kindes ofthem, which thePopif`n Writers will have tobe three : Firlt, that whereby AntichrifJhallfeem to rife againfrom the dead; the fecond,ThetWhereby hejhall make fire to comedoWn from heaven; the third is, To make an Image havepolder to fpeak, Which feeing they arenotfound in the PopeofRome, it followeth, that he is not An- tichrisl thus reafoneth Bellarmine,;Book3. of the `Pope of Rome, Chap. s 5. But firft for his refurrec`tion from the dead, it is gathered ont ofthat that is faid,verf3. ofthis Chapter,that his headWas Woun- ded to death, and healed again, and out of that that is laid after- wa rds, Cha, p. i 7.8. That he Wacs,and is not ; andhe arofe out ofthe Got- tornlefe
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