16. Many false miracles were wrought of old, and may be wrought still, but only among such as are in falsities as to their faith, and whose worship, as a result, is not internal but external; for miracles cannot enter such men and defile their interior truths, because they have none. Although these are not true miracles, but for the most part are deceptions, they may nevertheless stir simple minds to some sort of external piety and sanctity, which is impure to the extent that they are in falsities.