Yet there is another place of sainct Ambrose, whiche the Papistes thynke maketh muche for their purpose, but after due examinacion, it shal plainly appeare, howe muche they be deceyued. They allege these wordes of sainct Ambrose in a booke intituled De ijs qui initiantur mysterijs.
Let vs proue that there is not that thyng whiche natur formed, but whiche benediction did cōsecrate, and that benediction is of more strength than nature For by the blessyng, nature it selfe is also chaunged. Moyses helde a rodde, he cast it from him, and it was made a serpent. Againe he tooke the ser∣pent by the tayle, and it was turned againe into the nature of a rodde. Wherfore thou seest, that by the grace of the prophet, the nature of the ser¦pent and rodde was twyse chaunged. The flud∣des of Egypt ranne pure water, & sodenly bloud beganne to brast out of the vaynes of the spryn∣ges, so that men could not drynke of the fludde: but at the prayer of the prophet, the bloud of the fludde went away, and the nature of water came againe. The people of the Hebrues were com∣passed aboute, on the one syde with the Egypti∣ans, and on the other syde with the sea. Moyses lyfted vp his rodde, the water deuided it selfe, & stoode vp like a walle, and betwene the waters was left a waye for them to passe on foote. And Iordane against nature turned backe to the