Remonstrantie 14.2

14.2

Thus these mistaken men clearly agree with the papists, for they do not understand that God is the Knower of all hearts, but obscure the incomprehensible illumination of the beams of His almighty compassion, and bestow it on poor earthworms and false hypocrites. Through the subtlety of the devil these men in their lifetime blind the eyes of the poor; and sometimes the deception is continued after their death by crafty mendicants or disciples, who, by posing as their successors, batten on the innocent poor. These men know how to establish their position by means of sorcery, or perhaps it is that the popular imagination is led to accept their pretensions by the strange and ridiculous fables they tell of what has already been achieved by their companions.