A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither
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A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither
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Wither, George, 1540-1605.
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Printed at London :: By Edm. Bollifant for Thomas Woodcocke,
[1588]
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Bible -- N.T -- English -- Versions -- Douai -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. -- N.T -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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1. Cor. 12. 28.
The text.
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all doctors? ∴ are all
myracles? haue all the grace of doing cures, &c.
The note.
Saint Augustine ep. 137. giueth the same reason, why myracles and
cures be done at the memories or bodies of some saints, more then at o∣thers,
and by the same saints in one place of their memories, rather then
at other places.
The answer.
Augustine was a man, sometimes, as well as others, deceiued
by illusions. For why should not the same saints memories bée
honored with myracles in Affrica, as well as in Italie? For it
was not to places, but to persons, that the gift of doing myracles
was granted. How much trulier wrote Augustine that myra∣cles
were not suffered to endure to his time, least men should al∣waies