Verse 〈◊〉〈◊〉. But Iesus turned him about.]
To take notice of it himself, and to notifie it to others, for these reasons, saith Chry∣sostome; 1. To free the woman from fear, lest her conscience should call her Recreant, as one that had stole a cure. 2. To make up in her what was wanting to her faith, if she should have any such thought to do so. 3. To manifest her faith, for other mens imitation. 4. To make known his omnisciency, and so his Di∣vinity. 5. To confirm the Rulers faith, and so fit him for further mercy. 6. To teach her and us, that, not his garment, but him∣self did the cure. This makes against that Popish foppery in wor∣shipping reliques, as the Syndon wherein Christs body was en∣wrapped, of the vertue whereof Paleottus Archbishop of Bonony, set 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a great book, An. Dom. 1617.
That fable recorded by* 1.1 Eusebius is scarce worth relating; that this woman should set up at her door in Cesarea Philippi, a statue of brasse in honour of our Saviour; near whereto grew a certain herb good for all diseases. Irenaeus (far ancienter then Eusebius) reproveth the hereticks,* 1.2 called Gnostici, for that they carried about them the Image of Christ made in Pilates time, after his own proportion: using also for 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of their affection towards it, to set Garlands upon the head of it. And in Epiphanius his time (who lived soon after* 1.3 Eusebius) images and statues of Christ or the Saints were abhor∣red by 〈◊〉〈◊〉. The Turks will not endure any image, no not upon their coyn, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the second Commandment: and the Papists for their imagery, they call Idolaters.