_Calvine_ even there concludeth thus; They saie such vertues or miracles remaine, but experience saith naie. And see how they agree among themselves. _Danæus_ saith, that neither witch nor divell can worke miracles. _Giles Alley_ saith directlie, that witches worke miracles. _Calvine_ saith they are all ceased. All witchmongers saie they continue. But some affirme, that popish miracles are vanished and gone awaie: howbeit witches miracles remaine in full force. So as S. _Loy_ is out of credit for a horsseleach, Maister _T._ and mother _Bungie_ remaine in estimation for prophets: naie Hobgoblin and Robin goodfellow are contemned among yoong children, and mother _Alice_ and mother _Bungie_ are feared among old fooles. The estimation of these continue, bicause the matter hath not beene called in question: the credit of the other decaieth, bicause the matter hath beene looked into. Whereof I saie no more, but that S. _Anthonies_ blisse will helpe your pig, whensoever mother _Bungie_ dooth hurt it with hir cursse. And therefore we are warned by the word of God, in anie wise not to feare their cursses. But let all the witchmongers, and speciallie the miraclemongers in the world answer me to this supposition; Put case that a woman of credit, or else a woman-witch should saie unto them, that she is a true prophet of the Lord, and that he revealeth those secret mysteries unto hir, whereby she detecteth the lewd acts and imaginations of the wicked, and that by him she worketh miracles, and prophesieth, &c: I thinke they must either yeeld, or confesse that miracles are ceased. But such things (saith _Cardane_) as seeme miraculous, are cheeflie doone by deceipt, legierdemaine, or confederacie; or else they maie be doone, and yet seeme unpossible, or else things are said to be done, and never were nor can be doone. ♦_August. de verbis Dom. secundum Matth. sermone. 18._♦ ♦James. 5, 14.♦ ♦_J. Calvin. Institut. lib. 4. cap. 19. sect. 18._♦ ♦_Idem. ibid. sect. 19._♦ ♦Isai. 9. 7.♦ ♦Acts. 20, 10.♦ ♦_Idem. ibid. nempe J. Calvine._♦ ♦Prov. 51.♦ ♦_H. Card. de miracul._♦ The second Chapter. _That the gift of prophesie is ceased._