St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

That all the myracles done by the Martyrs in the name of CHRIST, were onely confirmations of that faith, whereby the Martyrs beleeued in CHRIST. CHAP. 9.

AND what doth all this multitude of miracles, but confirme that faith which holdeth that CHRIST rose againe in the flesh, and so ascended into hea∣uen? For the Martyrs were all but Martyrs, that is, witnesses of this; and for this, they suffered the malice of the cruell world, which they neuer resisted, but subdued by sufferance. For this faith they dyed, obtaining this of him for whom they dyed. For this, their pacience made the way for the power of these so powerfull miracles to follow. For if this resurrection had not beene past, in CHRIST, or had not beene to come, as CHRIST promised, as well as those Prophets that promised CHRIST; how commeth it that the martyrs that dy∣ed for this beleefe should haue the power to worke such wonders? For whe∣ther GOD him-selfe, (who being eternall can effect things temporall by such wondrous meanes) hath wrought these things of himselfe, or by his ministers, or by the soules of the martyrs, as if hee wrought by liuing men, or by his An∣gels ouer whome hee hath an inuisible, vnchangeable, and meerely intellectuall

command, (so that those things which the Martyrs are said to doe, bee onely wrought by their prayers, and not by their powers): bee they effected by this meanes, or by that; they doe neuer-the-lesse in euery perticuler, tend onely to confirme that faith which professeth the resurrection of the flesh vnto all eternity.