CAP.15. 730 Againí ellarmine, whet to make it plain that the Pope is no kin to Antichrifl,as that the Pope neither dothmany miracles; nor Tres, nor thofe threeexampler which you mention by name ?It feernsyon feared the triall : but you muft needs be brought unto it,thoughat,ainit your againft your Will. That he well agreeswith Antichrift in multitude ofmiracles;neither can you,neither doubtleffe lift you todeny :feting this is oneof the chiefuotes,wherein your Churchglorieth.Of this firft branch there- fore,there is no controverfie.But whither thofe fignrs he lies,which are done by the Popes and their Miniflers finceAntichrift firft began toPhew himfèlfe , Lt u- briefly confider : that then by alfo mayap- pcare, whither the crusebe trueor falfe, -which our men do charge youwith. I will not ufe, that argument, which the Spirit m3keth-tobea fut tokenoffalfe miracles; namely, that whatfoeverisdone for to con+ firm errour and'fupeiftition, is to be counted for a fraudulent fjgne : ( for you,donot acknowledge your errours,althoughthis shouldbe a fufficient argumenr,unto them that have learned the truth:)but I will bring finch as even'your felves cannot deny.L:et us therefore examine alittle thofe famous miraclesof Pope SylvcJ1er, to whom are attri- butedchiefly three.Onethat byfaredTapti/me hecored Gonflantiree the grcat,ofa leprofe Another,thothe raifed lap again abull that Was killed by Zambri a IeiiniJhforcerer. The third ,rbathe bounda Dragon after a marvellot4 manner : As touching the leprofìe,every man may eafily fm. 11 it tobe but a ítitiking fiction by this , that the ancient writers that lived either next afterConflantine,o; together withhim, (peaknot anyone word of the fame: Bufebi.es who fo diligently wrote his life and heaped up foleinlyunto his praife, whatfòever could any where begathered : wouldnot have concealed this frngit- lar enéfit ofGod. It muft needs therefore be thatthe later writers drew all thisont of the third ditch; namely from the Romifh fables fraineJ for this purpofe only,to encreafe the Popes authority.' Again, feeing the curingof this l profie dependeth onBaptifine , and it is certainly known that he was baptized,,not by Sylvefter at Rome, but by F_ufebius at Nicomedia;and that not in the beginning of his reign, but in the latter endofhis life :.who feeth not this cure ro be altoge- ther feined and Rife ? Etefcbiws telleth th* he was baptized-atNice- media a littlebefore he departed thislife. InVita Confantine.Lib.4. Wheretoagree Socrateslib. i..chap.39,Theodoret lib..i .chap. 3z. So- zatm lib, 2, chap. 34. Ambrofe lib. De obituTheodo f j anal FJieron, in Chronicvs.. Brut you on the other fade objeé If damns , Zonarar,,,and Nicephert
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