L. VIVES.
AT this time (a) restore] So it must bee read, not represent. (b) It is not for you] He forbid∣deth * 1.1 all curiosity, reseruing the knowledge of things to come onely to himselfe. Now let my figure-flingers, and mine old wiues, that hold Ladies and scarlet potentates by the eares, with tales of thus and thus it shalbe; let them all goe packe. Nay sir he doth it by Christs command: why very good, you see what Christs command is. Yet haue wee no such de∣light as in lies of this nature, and that maketh them the bolder in their fictions, thinking that wee hold their meere desire to tell true, a great matter in so strange a case. (c) Euangelicall] Spoken by Christ, and written by an Euangelist. Indeed Christs ascension belongeth to the Gospell and that Chap. of the Actes had been added to the end of Lukes Gospell but that his preface would haue made a seperation. (d) Child-slaughtering▪ The Pagans vsed to vp∣braid * 1.2 the Christians much with killing of Children. Tertull Apologet. It was a filthy lie. In∣deed the Cataphrygians and the Pepuzians, two damned sects of heresie, vsed to prick a yong childes body all ouer with needles, and so to wring out the bloud, wherewith they tempered their past for the Eucharisticall bread. Aug ad Quodvultd. So vsed the Eu•…•…hitae and the Gnostici, for to driue away deuills with. Psell. But this was euer held rather villanies of magike then rites of christianity.