And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Ver. 17. In my name they shall, &c.] This promise was peculiar to the primitive Christians and to such as lived immediately after Christ's ascension. That was an extraordinary providence, that when Squier, that traitor, A. D. 1597, had poisoned the pummel of Queen Elizabeth's saddle when she was to take horse; albeit the season were hot, and the veins open to receive any malignant tainture, yet her body thereupon felt no distemperature, her hand felt no more hurt than Paul's did when he shook off the viper into the fire. (Speed's Hist.)