The.ix. chapyter

The author shewyth […] albe yt men m[…]y mystruste some of the p[…] tyculer myracle[…]/yet c[…] there no resonable […] neyther deny nor […]/but that […]any myracles hath there bene done and wrought.

FOrsothe quod he & yet […] for myracles I were notte for all thys boūdē to beleue any. for I spake n[…]uer yet wt any man yt cou[…]e tell me that euer he saw any It may q I fortune you to lyue so lōg that yt shall fynde no mā that was by at your crystenyng / nor when ye were bishopped neyther. Mary q he for ought[…] I wot I haue lyued so longe all redy. why dout we not than q I whyther ye were euer crystenyd or not? For euery man quod he presumyth & beleueth that I ā crystenyd / as a thyng so comenly done / that we reken our selfe sure yt no man leuyth yt […]ndone. I[…] the comen presumpsyon quod I suffycyently serue you to set your mynd in surete / than albeit myracles be nothīg comenly & customably done / nor that no presumpcyon can suffy[…]ently serue for ye profe of thys myracle or that / yet hathe there euer from the begynnyng of the world in euery nacyon crysten […] he then / and almost euery town at so[…] dry times so many myracles and m[…] uayls bene wrought besyde the come[…] cour[…] of nature / that I thynk thorow ye world yt is as well beleuyd vnyuersally that miracles and maruayl[…] the[…] be / as any thyng ys beleuyd that men loke vppon. So that if comen presūpsiō serue you / ye may as I sayd as w[…]l beleue that myracles be done / […] that youre selfe was euer cry[…]enyd. For I dare well say that the[…]e […]r a thousand yt bele[…]e ther hath bene myracles dōe / against one that beleuyth that ye wer euer cry[…]enyd / or euer wyst whether ye were borne or n[…]t. Nor ye doctors of Cry[…]ys chyrch dyd n[…]u[…]r mystrus[…] ye wonders & m[…]r[…]yl[…] t[…]t the […] nymes telle and wryte too ha[…]e beene done by theyr false goddis / but assygneth them to haue ben done by the deuyll thorow goddꝭ sufferaūce for thyllusyon of them that with idolatry had deserued to be deluded. And whyther they be myracles by whyche name we cōmenly call the wonders wrought by god or merueyles done by the deuel it forseth not for thys purpose of ours. For yf ye graunt that the deu[…]ll may do any by goddis sufferāce / ye can not say nay but god may much more […]asily do hym self. And sith ye be a christen mā and receyue scripture I might ī this matter quod I haue choked you long a go / wyth the manyfold myracles and meruailes yt be shewed there.