Iohn. 9. 24.
The text.
They therefore againe called the man that had beene blind and said to him, ∴ Giue glorie to God, we know that this man is a sinner.
The note.
So saie the heretikes when they derogate from miracles done by Saints, or their relikes, pharisaically pretending the glorie of God. As though it were not Gods glory when his saints do it by his power & ver∣tue, yea his greater glorie, that doth such things by his seruants, and by the meanest things belonging to them, as Peters shadow, Act. 5. and Paules napkin, Act. 9.
The answer.
If by pretence of giuing glorie to God, the pharisies had not gone about to derogate from the glory of our Lord and Sauiour Christ, their words had not béene faultie. We confesse that by the smaller and weaker things God worketh, the more his glory thereby appéereth. Yet that maketh nothing for your impudent shamelesse forged miracles, as in making our Ladie a chappell kéeper (I will not saie a baude) in a nunnerie xv. yéeres togither, to couer the vile life of Beatrix the Nun,* 1.1 who plaied the whoore so many yéeres togither. Do you thinke that such miracles as this will make to the glorie of God? And yet your bookes of lies are full of them.