Response aux cinq premieres et principales demandes de F. Jean Hay, moine jesuite, aux ministres escossois

more than sufficiently sealed and approved by miracles) than that the gift of miracles alone is a sufficient approval, either of the truth of a doctrine or of a legitimate vocation, since this gift is even communicated by a just judgment of God to the spirit of error, and to the most wicked when it pleases God to punish the world in this way. Witness what is written in Matthew 7:22, 24:24, and 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10. This is also why, in order to distinguish true Prophets, whom one must listen to, from false ones, whom one must reject, Moses in Deuteronomy 13:1 does not teach the people to have recourse to miraculous prophecies, but to the doctrine. And Jesus Christ in Luke 20:2, when asked by what authority He did what He did, and wishing to confirm His vocation by the testimony of John the Baptist, authorized the latter's vocation by the fact that his baptism—that is to say, his doctrine—was from heaven. Now, what disorder that has occurred in the Church in the past can be compared to that which is committed, both in what you call your Orders and in the vocation of Ecclesiastical charges? And what necessity was ever found in the Churches universally equal to that which existed when the Lord opposed His faithful servants to your Babylon a term used by reformers to denote the Roman Catholic Church, as He still does today?

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