C A P. 15. touching Antìchrift. 735 Homil. 6. hee giveth a reafon why miracles were wrought in the time of the Difciples,and yet there are none in his time ; becaufe hoW much morecertain and neceffary matters be, the lefer it our faith in them : and a little afterwards, by hoW much more certainly anargu- ment is demonstrated, fo much is detralledfrom the reWardof faith ; and therefore thatf:gnes Were not Wrought at that prefcnt time. So allo faith St. Außen in hisBook oftrue Religion, Chap. z5. For fee- inie the Catholike Church is fcattered abroad into all the World, and founded in it, neither Were thole miracles permitted to indure till our times, left- that our mindefsould alWayesfeek after vifible things, aní mankindJbbsuldWax cold in Religion through cuFtomablefeeine ofthem done,attheflrangenefe Whereofit Waxedhot ; Neither ought We noW to doubt, but that Wee mull believe thole men, Who When as they do 'peak of fueh things as feW men attain unto, are able yet to per - fWade the multitudes of people, that they are to be fo!loWcd But again, fay they, why are not the miracles done noW, Which are faid to havebeen done ? Icould fay truly, that they Were neceffary be- fore the Worldbelieved, to the endthat the Worldmight believe, Whofo- ever loth noW requireafter miracles to make him believe, he nsaeth himfelf Worthy to beWondred at for his monfirous unbelief, Who will Not believe, Whenallthe Worldbelieveth. Which Te(hmonies do cor.- vince all Popishmiracles(which be infinite almoft)to be full offraud and couzenage,at lean lince that time. And certainly,God feemeth to have put an end before that age to thofe old miracles in his ungular providence, that fo Antichrift andhis Copefmates might be the bet- terdifcerned of the World,when as he fhould be Peen to come forth with this strange and pompous Phew of firange feats. Thirdly, there are not wanting fome of your own company, who have acknowledged the vanity of your miracles ; as Alexander de Hales, Par.4. (Zieft.53.Member 4. Artic.3. Solut.3. 2. Heappeared) noWand then in the Sacrament, fmetimes by mens devices andjug- glings ; (omctimes by the operation of the Devil/. And Niol. Lyra on Dan. Sometimes there is great deceit of thepeople made in the Church, through the miracles which are forged by the Priclis, or thofe that cleave unto them for their advantage. Fourthly,examplesalto do prove this, filch as thofe were (to omit others that be innumerable), that are laid to be contrived in the time ofthat famous combate between the Francifcans and the Do- minicans, among the people of Berne, about the conceptionof the blefled Virgin Mary,namely,Whetherfie Were conceived and born in fin Aaaaa a or
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