The.iiii. chapiter

Th[…] author declareth in ye cōprobacyon of pylgrymagys that yt ys the pleasure of god to be specyally soughte & worshypped in some one place byfore a nother. And albe that we can not attayne to ye knowledge of the cause why god doth so / yet ye author proueth by greatte authoryte that god by myracle testyfyeth yt ys so.

wyth thys your frēd asked me what reson were there y• god wold sette more by one place than by a nother / or how know we yt he so doth namely yf the t[…]ne be a chyrch as well as the tother. whereunto I answered that why god wold do yt I coulde make hym no answere no more thā saynte austen sayeth that he coud. I was neuer so nere of his coūsell nor dare not be so bold to ask hym / but that he so doth in dede yt I ā sure Inoughe. yet not for that he settyth more by that place for the soyle and pauement of ye place / but that hys pleasure in some place is to shewe more hys assystence and to be more specyally sought vnto than in sum other. Thā he as[…]ed me wherby was I so sure of yt. wheruppon I demaunded hym that yf it so were yt the thyng stādyng in debate & questyō / it wold lyke our lord to shew a myracle for the proffe of the tone parte / wolde ye not quod I reken than the questyon were decyded / & ye dowte assoyled / and yt parte suffycyently proued[…] yes mary quod he that wold I. well quod I than ys thys matter oute of doute lōg a go. for god hath ꝓued my parte in dyuerse pylgrymagꝭ by the workyng of many moo thā a thousād myracles one tyme and other. In the gospell of Iohn the fyft chapiter where we rede that the angell moued the water / & who so next went in was cured of hys dysease / was it not a suffycyent profe that god wold they shuld cum thether for theyr helth / Albe yt no man can telle why he sentt thāgell rather thyther & there dyd hys myracles than in a nother water? But whan so euer oure lorde hathe in any place wrought a myracle / all though he nothīg do it for ye place / but for ye honor of ye saynt whom he wyll haue honored in yt place / or for ye fayeth yt he fyndeth wyth some that prayeth in that place / or for thencrease of fayeth whych he fyndeth fallynge and decayed in that place nedyng the shewe of sō myracles for the reuyuyng / what so euer ye cause be / yet I thynke thaffeccyon is to be cō mended of men and women yt wt good deu[…]cyon rōne thether where they see or here that our lord sheweth a demōstracyon of hys specyall assystēce. And whan he sheweth many in […]one place / it ys a good tokē yt he wold be sought vppon and worshypped there. Many iewes were ther that cā to hyerusalem to se ye myracle that chryst had wroght vppon lazare as the gospell reherseth. and suerly we were worse than iewes yf we wold be so neclygent that where god worketh myracles / we lyste not […]ons go moue our fote thetherwarde. we marueyle moch that god shewethe […]omoo myracles nowe a dayes / whan yt ys mych more maruell that he doth vouchsaufe to shewe any at all among such vnkynde slouthfull dedely people as lyst not oones lyfte vp theyr heddꝭ to loke theron / or yt our incredulyte cā suffer hym nowe adays to worke eny.