[Sidenote: Fryth.] ¶ As for the myracles, I mervell not at them, neyther may they make me the sooner to beleue it. For Christe tolde vs before [Sidenote: Mat. 24.] that suche delusyons shulde come, that yf it were possyble, the very electe shulde be deceyued by them. [Sidenote: 2. Tes, 2.] And S. Paule exorteth vs to be ware of such sygnes ād wōders. And therfore I do as Moses teacheth me [Sidenote: Deu. 13.] when I here of suche a wonder, then strayght I loke vpon the doctryne that is annexed wyth it. Yf it teache me to referre all the honoure to God and not to creatures, and teache me nothynge but that wyll stonde with Goddes worde, then wyll I saye, that it is of God. But yf it teache me suche thynges as wyll not stonde with hys worde, then wyll I determyne that it is done by the deuell, to delude the people with dampnable Idolatrye. When Paule and Barnabas preached at Lystra [Sidenote: Acte. 24.] and had done a myracle amonge them, the people ranne and wolde haue done sacryfyce vnto them. But the Apostles ranne amonge them and tare their clothes, cryenge vnto them, syrs what do you? We are euen corruptyble men as ye are, and preache vnto you, that you shulde leaue thys vayne superstycyon, ād worshyppe the leuynge God, which made heauē, earth, the see, and all that is in thē et c. Here the Apostles refused suche honour & worshyppe. And therfore I am sure they wolde not suffer their Images to haue it. Now when I see a myracle done at any Image, and perceyue that it bryngeth mē to the worshyppynge of it selfe, cōtrarye to the facte and doctryne of the Apostles, whiche wolde not receyue it them selues, I must neades conclude, that it is but a delusyon done by the deuell to deceyue vs, ād to brynge the wrath of God vpon vs. Euē so I saye of the sacramēt, syth the myracles that are don by it, do make mē thynke otherwyse thē scripture wyll, ād cause mē to worshyppe it: I doubte not but they are done by the deuell, to delude the peple. Thou wylt perauēture say, that god wyll hym to abuse the sacrament of hys bodye and bloode. Yes verelye, god wyll suffer yt, and doth suffer yt, to see whether we wyll be faythfull and abyde by hys worde or not. And mervell not therof, [Sidenote: Matt. 4.] for God suffered hym to take vppe the verye naturall bodye of his sonne Christ and set hym vpon a pynnacle of the temple. And after he toke hym vppe agayne, and ledde hym to ā exceadynge moūtayne. And therfore thynke not but that he hath more power over the sacramēt thē he had ouer christes owne bodye. And therfore when they tell me, lo here is Christ: lo there is Christ (as Christ prophecyed) lo, he is at thys aultre, lo, he is at that, I wyll not beleue them.