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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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fession. Whence then came that reuelacion /
that she shuld be holpe and all hir holy
preachinge? Iff of the deuell /
then was the myracle and all of the deuell. Iff
of the holy gost / then was she inspired with the holy gost
and had the deuell within hir
both at tonce. And in as moch as the mayd of
kent was inspired by
the holy gost by their confession / whence came
that stoppynge of
hir throte / that rauinge / those greuouse
panges / that tormentynge / disfigurynge / drawing of hir
mouth awrye and that ferfull and terreble countenaunce? If
of the holy gost / and then whi not the revell and gamboldes
of the maide of Ipswich also? and then
what mater maketh it whether a man haue the
deuell or the holy gost in him. If ye saye of the deuell /
then had she likewise both the deuell and the holy gost both
at tonce. Morouer those possessed which Christ holpe avoyded
christ and fled from him / so that other which beleued were
fayne to bringe them vn to him agenst their willes. For
which causes and many moo that might be made / thou maist
conclude / that the deuell vexed them and preached in them / to
confirme fayned confession and dome ceremonies
and sacramentes with out significacion and damnable sectes
/ and shewed them those reuelacions. And assone as they
were brought before oure ladies image / departed out of
them / to delude vs and to turne oure faythes
from Christ vn to an old blocke. As we reade in
the legend of S. Bartholomewe
/ how the deuels hurte men in their lymmes and
assone as they were brought in to a certayne temple before
an Idole / their they departed out of them and so begyled
the people makynge them beleue that the Idole had healed
them of some naturall diseases.
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those possessed.
Cf. Matt. 17.14–18, Mark 9.17–29.
legend of S.
Bartholomewe. According to the Golden
Legend, when Bartholomew preached the gospel in India, he saw
an idol inhabited by a demon, who supposedly cured the sick. Bartholomew
bound the demon, cured a young woman, and converted her father the king and his people to Christianity (GL 2.
110–12).
the deuell . . .
diseases. Cf. CWM 8/1.245/27–29. For examples of false miracles
by witches, [K6v, “the miracles which witches doo”]; by Mohammed, cf.
[K7, “Mahometes . . . yeres” and commentary note]; by Roman Catholics, cf. [K7v, “youre awne myracles”]. See also Obedience P3v—Q3, "Of miracles and worsheppinge of
sayntes."
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