M. Hardinge. The .5. Diuision.
Eusebius Caesariensis in the seuenthe booke of his Ecclesiastical storie,* 1.1 writeth of the aunciente Image of Christe made in Brasse, and of the woman that was healed by our Sauiour of her blouddye flixe in the Citie of Phoenic••a called Caesarea Philippi, whereof that woman was a Citizen. VVhiche Image, he saithe, he sawe, as likewise the Images of Peter and Paule, kepte by some of olde time. And there he confesseth, that the Images of Peter and Paule, and of our Sauiour were in his time made, and painted in ••ables,* 1.2 and set foorthe. After Eusebius deathe, Iulian the renegate tooke downe this Image of Christe, and set vp his owne in the same place: whiche with violente fier that fel from heauen, was clefte asunder in the breast, the heade broken of with a peece of the necke, and stickte in the grounde: The reast of it soremained longe after, as a token of lightninge, and Gods displeasure might be reserued. That Image of Christe, after that the Painimes had haled, pulled, broaken, and mangled it villainously, by the Christians was taken vp, set togeather, and placed in the Churche, where it is yet reserued, saithe Socrates of his time. Of the miraculouse herbe that grewe at the foote of this Image, whiche after that it had growen so high, that it touched the Images skirtes, ta∣ken, and ministred, was a medicine and present remedie for al diseases, as Eusebius writeth: because it perteineth not specially to the mater of Images, I rehearse nothinge.