CA. r.15. touchingAntichrift. 739 ¡trace, that thefe things arc to be urderttood as the twoi'ds found. Herewe havenothing but your bare affirmation. In the mane time we are not to doubt, but that thofe three things which are foretold in the Scriptures touching the miraclesofe/1»tichrift,are all of them Peen tohe fulfilled by your Pope, that is both the multitude, the fraude,and the fpeciall examples ofmiracles; and therefore that he is that man of fanne, whom the Revelation defcribe:h,and. Taul fore- told to theThcfJ', ., Batt although you could bring nothing in the whole fo-rmer part of this Chapter, wherewithall to clear your Pope from being guilty of this impiety by the teaimony of his miracles, yet that yoti might feeme to have laid fomething,you take upon you toanfwer our men,which let Cis fee after what fafhionyouperforme. 7-he Writers of Maydcnburgh ({ay you) do obietl that many miracles have been wrought by the Popes, and their Pages, ofWhichfort are the vifons of 'basics that tell Tales of Purgatory, and that require to have Mafesfang andPaidfor thene;of thisfart alfoare the Cures ofdifea/et, Which hapned to thofe that worship ?rnagcs, or that vow unto Saints: Nowwe anffwer two things, firr#, that thefe are not the Miracles- Which John Writ:th that Ant ichrifl (houldwork, bet to die,and to rife g inc,to call down firefrom heaven, to give power of (peaking toan Image; andyou drive ads to prove that thefe things have Beene done by the Pope or any of the'Popelings. To all this I lay, that I have ¡hewed that the Pope died when Rome was taken and poffeffed by the Bnr- iviriuns, as alto that when thefe weredrivenour, and the Por was lift up againe to his formey and a greater dignity, he then role a- gaine. That Fire Was thrown down from heaven by hint, after that he had perfwaded the world, that itwas ofneceihry to Salvation to be fubjceî to the Pope ofRome; for then did his tire terrifie all men, as if ;t had beena flafhof lightning lent from the mighty God, who is a confuming fire to all that difobey him; then that he gave the Image- ewer of fpeaking, when he gat up to that height of audaci- oufneffe,foas he durft vaunt ofhimfelf both in word and deedwith- out feare ofcontrolment, and fay is became him that had a mouth fpeakingblafphemies, By me Kings raigne, all thefe miracles are -wrought by the Popes Fa ors allo, that lend the Pope their help- ing hand,that fo they may delude the world themo a eafilyby thefe perfwafions. And yet Images fpeak allo properly among you le- fuits. Xaverim raifeth up the dead, and flames offire have appeared from heaven, to defend and to countenance your Popes withal!. Secondly you anfwer, that thofe three kinds of miracles, namely, vjons
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