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CHAP. VI.
Apollo, who was call•• Pytho, compared to the Roe of grace: Gre∣gories letter to the devil confuted.
WHat need many words to confute this fable? For if Gregory 〈◊〉〈◊〉 been an honest man, he would never have willingly 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that the people should have been further cosened with such alying spirit•• if he had been halfe so holy as Eusebius maketh him, he would not are consented or yeelded to so lewd a request of the priest, nor have write such an impious letter, no not though good might have come there••••. And therefore as well by the impossibility and folly conteined therein, of the impiety (whereof I dare excuse Gregory) you may perceive it to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a ly. Me thinks they which still maintain that the devil made answer the idol of Apollo, &c. may have sufficient perswasion to revoke their ••••∣roneous opinions: in that it appeareth in record, that such men were skilful in Augurie, did take upon them to give oracles at Delph•••• the place of Apollo:* 1.1 of which number Tisanius the sonne of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 was one. But vain is the answer of idols. Our Rood of grace, with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 helpe of little S. Rumbal, was not inferior to the idol of Apollo: for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 could not work eternall miracles, but manifest the internall thought•• the heart, I beleeve with more lively shew, both of humanity and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of divinity,* 1.2 than the other. As if you read M. Lamberts book of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 perambulation of Kent, it shall partly appear. But if you talke 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them that have been beholders thereof, you will be satisfied herein▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 yet in the blind time of popery, no man might under pain of dama•••• on, nor without danger of death, suspect the fraud. Nay, what 〈◊〉〈◊〉 will yet confesse they were idols, though the wiers that made their ••••gogle, the pins that fastened them to the postes to make them seem 〈◊〉〈◊〉, were seen and burnt together with the images themselves the knavery of the priests bewraied, and every circumstance thereof detected and manifested?