Commenting on the woman who had an issue of blood (Luke 8), John Boys wrote that we learn “not to put any trust in the reliques of Saints, or impute any saving vertue to the vestiments of our Saviour. For the vertue which healed her went not out of any coat, but out of Christ immediately: he said not, there is vertue proceeded from my vesture, but I perceive that vertue is gone out of me, Luk. 8.46. There was no great or extraordinarie vertue in his garments after his death, when the souldiers had parted them among them; nor in his life when he wore them, for the people that thronged him, received no benefit by them, but onely shee and they that touched him by faith. … Now the hemme of his humane nature was his passion, and his passion was a sacrifice for our sinne; so that to touch the hemme of his garment, is nothing else, but to beleeve with Paul, that Christ Jesus came into the word to save sinners, of whom I am chiefe.”
John Boys, The Works of John Boys, Imprinted for William Ashley, 1629, page 556
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