150 C H A P.2. ftn Expofition vpon theficond V fi R.9. exceeding the order of whole Nature ; or of Nature vni- uerfally taken; beyond whole ability diuels,yea,good An -' gels afcend not. q, Had Romani(fs any advancement into the Throne by t is meanes ? Re p, Such,and fo great, that by Ed/amine and others,its made note of the Church ; Read him alfo' in the queffion of Ancichriff, what pretty tales he tells of Syl- uegers Miracles curing Gor f anttne of his Leprofi :.Stories or Legends rather, are full of lying both wonders, and re- ports of wonders to confirme their worfhip of Reliques, prayer for the dead, Inuocation of Saints , Purgato- rie, &c. Greateff Controuerfi(fs,when Scriptures,Fathers, Traditions faile, fly to miracles, for confirmation of do- árine. That chiefly is remarkeable in (forie; that about the time of Gregorie the great, what time Antichri(f grew towards cleare(f Reueration. and was now to be inftalled and entituled Oecumenical) Bifhop ; Miracles of all forts began to be multiplied. Read Jregories Dialogues, and what TaulusDiaconusand other, following fables, re- port ofall forts of wonders, for confirmation of all forts of Popifh errour and fuperffition. I will not denie but the things reported were, many of them, true in genere Re- rum ; I dare halfe fweare, they were all faife in genere Miraculorum, that were pretended wrought for confir- mation of Poperie. Whither and when the gift of Miracles ceafed in the Church might here not impertinently be enquired : but the volume growes biggifh. But Pure, me thinkes, they longed to haue their Bi- fhop knowne Antichriff,their Church Antichriffian,when this came into thenumber of Notes of the Church : Gloria Miraculorum: fo was Antichriff table aduanced into his Throne, fo the people to be befotted who receiued his Charatler. Not but that Miracles, true)y fo called, arc teffimonies of Truth, vtfupra. But that the maruels they brag of, are mira onely, if true, not miracula. And many of them faife lying reports, meere fables and no better. Such that of Sy/smilers curing Conflantines Leprofie, in his
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