CAP.15. touchingAntichrií}. 733 that Prophecie,from which exercife the very Infidels ought pòt to be excluded, according to that ofthe Apoftle, where he faith, But ifall menJhallprophecie, and fome man{ball come in that isan idiot, hee u reprovedofall men, he isjudged ofallmen, andfo the fecrets ofhis heart aremade manifeil, andfo befalling down on hisface,(hallWorfhip god, and(hallfty,that 'verily the true Godit amongyott, i Cor. i 4:. 24, 25. But ConJantine had obtained from God the like precious ¡faith wich the reft efthe Saints,and therefore he might be partaker of the fpirit,likeas thofemenwere,onwhom the fpirit fell before Baptifm, 4111.10. 44,&c. Now, as for that, that he deferred his Baptifine,the Father knewthat he didnot defer it through contempt,but through a certain religious intent that hehad, (I will not now difpute, whether it were goodor bad.) Theymight alto think, that Mofes did not count his childrento be ftrangers from the covenant,howfoever they were not circumcifed at the day appointed, and that the Ifraelites were not forbidden tooffer Sacrifices, neither were they kept from the reft ofthe worfhip oftheTabernacle, though they were not cir- cumcifed in the defart,wherfore therewas no caufe why They fhould deny him entrance into the Councel, feeing every deferring of the outward figne taketh not away from the faithful! the priviledge of the Sons of God in the common duties ofpiety, either withGod or men;;feeing therefore it is certain,that Confiantne was not baptized but in the end ofhis life ; that report touching the cleanfingof Con- flantines leprofie by Sylvefter, through the force of Baptifine, that was adminiftred twenty yeers at leaft before, is a lying fable. And this doth Iacobur de Voragine ingenuoufly acknowledge in his legend of the inventionofthe holy Crofhe, (peaking of the Baptifm ofCon- fiantinc. It is doubted (faith hee) Whether hedeferredhis Baptifine, Whereupon there is doubt made likeWifeabout thatLegend ofS.Sylvefler, in regard of many things therein; and a littlebeneath, Ir ù certain that there are many things in the Hiflory, Which are rehearfed in the Churches,Whichdo notfound as ifthey Were foundly true. He fpeaketh touching the finding out ofthe Croffe,but there is the like refpec`f to be had ofall the Legends by his words. This is therefore a lying mi- racleas which is not underpropped with any credible witneffe,and it contradicteth the true Hiltory. The fecónd Miracle is, of a Bull raifed from the dead by Syl- vefter, Whom Zambres the lait of thofe twelve Iewes that impugned anddi puted against the Christian verity, put to death of a ¡udd n by Whifpering certain Words intohis ease. This Fable is of the fame' A a a a a ftampe
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