That the beleefe of Christes Deity was wrought by Gods power, not mans perswasion. CHAP. 7.
BVt it is absurd to make any mention of the false Deity of Romulus, when wee speake of Christ. But if the age of Romulus, almost 600. yeares before Scipio, were so stored with men of vnderstanding, that no impossibility could enter their beleefe: how much more wise were they 600. yeares after, in Tulliestime, in Tiberius his, and in the daies of CHRISTS comming? So that his resurrecti∣on and ascension would haue beene reiected as fictions and impossibilities, if either the power of God or the multitude of miracles had not perswaded the contrary, teaching that it was now shewne in Christ, and hereafter to be shewne in all men besides, and auerring it strongly against all horrid persecutions throughout the whole world, through which the blood of the Martyrs made it spread and flourish. They read the Prophets, obserued a concordance, and a concurrence of all those miracles, the truth confirmed the noueltie, beeing not contrary to reason, so that at the last, the World imbraced and professed that which before it had hated and persecuted.