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FIrst, that of our Sauiour Christs appearing, is an hereticall fable, and impug∣neth the article of our faith concerning Christs ascension into heauen, and there remaining till his second comming. Secondly, Peter was not bound to be∣leeue Cornelius vision, till he had been by vision admonished himselfe: the A∣postles which were then endued with the gift of discerning spirits, could better
iudge of true visions, then any man now can: yet we refuse not to giue credite to visions, when they are as crediblie reported vnto vs, as this was to Peter: but no vision, nor miracle, nor angel from heauen, shall drawe vs away from the doctrine of the scriptures to beleeue errors. Lastly, we denye not, but that they may haue visions: but such as one Vincentius bragged of, that wrote against Augustine concerning the originall of the soule: He sayd, that another Vincen∣tius who had been a captaine or chiefe Donatist, appeared vnto him in vision, and bad him write those bookes: to whom Augustine thus answereth: Ille qui se transfigurat in angelum lucis, in eo tibi est transfiguratus,* 1.1 quem tu fuisse veluti angelum lucis credidisti. He that can transfigure himselfe into an angel of light, did transfigure himself into the shape of that man, whom thou esteemedst as an angell of light. Such apparitions they may haue, and yet no great cause to boast of them.
Lib. 3. cap. 2 de animae origine.