Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	body_n	bread_n	transubstantiation_n	7,578	5	11.1962	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50461	A conference betwixt a papist and a Jew, or, A letter from a merchant in London, to his correspondent in Amsterdam	Mayo, Richard, 1631?-1695.; N. H.; Jacob, John, 17th cent.	1678 (1678)	Wing M1522; ESTC R10629	19,865	37

I have heard urged by others though it was omitted by you How he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and then born of a Virgin without the knowledg of man A like Miracle is recorded in one of your Church-histories publisht not long since with allowance how St. Kentigerne's Mother begged of Jesus that she might imitate his Virgin-mother in the conception and birth of a child accordingly within a little time she finds her self with child but often protests she never knew any man But by the Law of that Country where she lived she must be cast headlong from the top of a high mountain She weeps and prays but the Executioner does his work down she falls but is so far from being kill'd or dasht in pieces that she has no bruise or hurt Then she is carried on shipboard many miles into the Sea and there turned out into a small boat of leather destitute of all humane help yet with great speed and safety she arriveth at a far distant Port and landing she is delivered of that admirable Saint and miraculously conceived son St. Kentigerne As to Miraculous actions the forementioned book and others of equal or greater authority will afford plenty that do not only compare with but exceed the Miracles of Jesus and his Disciples As for instanee your Records speak of Jesus his fasting forty days and I can shew you where 't is recorded of St. Patrick that he fasted a whole Lent which I think with you is forty days without any humane sustenance where one St. Ardan is said to fast full fifty days and to grow fatter upon it And whereas it is said That Jesus fed five thousand persons with five loaves and two small fishes St. Patrick is said to have fed fourteen thousand men with one Cow two Stags and two wild Boars and it was talkt how next day the Cow was alive again And as for Jesus his turning Water into Wine it is not so much as is commonly affirmed of your Priests how by repeating four or five words they can turn Wine into Blood and Bread into Flesh and that the Flesh and Blood of Jesus himself though you affirm he is ascended into Heaven and shall there remain till his second coming And it is recorded of one Odo an Archbishop of Canterbury that when some of his Clergy did doubt of such Transmutation or Transubstantiation that he prayed with tears whilst he was at Mass that God would convince them by a sign and the body of Jesus which he held in his hands that is the bread began to pour forth blood into the Chalice which they perceiving desired the Prelate to pray that the blood might be changed again lest vengeance should fall upon them for their incredulity he doth so and it became wine Again whereas your Records speak how Jesus and his Disciples did heal all manner of Diseases whether the Diseased were present or absent and that with a words speaking the like is also recorded of some of his more modern followers Take for instance St. David a great light of the Church as he is called He invited St. Kined to come to his Synod St. Kined excused himself because he was lame and crooked unfit for such holy company and unable for so great a journey Whereupon St. David prays him strait and sound But the other still delayed his coming upon which St. David unprays his former prayer and he becomes lame and crooked again St. Bernard had great success as appears in your Histories this way for he cured one in Spain of a fore disease whilst he was in France he cured one of a Dropsie by putting his own girdle about him another of the Head-ach by sending him his cap to wear another that lay a dying he restored by sending him his coat with a many more of the like kind As for casting out of Devils nothing is more ordinary than for your Priests to do that feat by their Exorcisms your holy water with the sign of the Cross is said to be frequently successful in this work And I find in one of your Histories how a Woman was dispossest of seven Devils at Lauretto by calling on the Virgin Mary for help and when four were cast out the other three called Heroth Horribilis and Arcto with much difficulty were removed one crys out Mary Mary thou art too cruel against us another howled lamentably and said Mary thou art too powerful in this place where thou dost force us out of our possession against our will And the Priest who by Mary's aid did this Miracle made him tell what place that was who answered it was the Virgins Bed-chamber wherein after the Angel Gabriel's message she conceived God which was as other Histories speak brought thither by a Miracle Nay some of your great Saints have contended with the Devil and worsted him as St. Dunstan who catch'd him by the Nose with a pair of hot Tongs and plucked him so hard that the Devil was glad to shift from him by breaking down a Wall crying out it did so smart once and again oh what hath this Bald-pate done As for raising the dead this also hath been frequently practised St. Francis makes one dye that answered his disciples roughly when they would have borrowed his Cart and afterwards raised him up again and restored him to life A man and his Son going a Pilgrimage to St. James at Compostella light upon a wicked Host that first makes them drunk and then puts two Silver Cups into their Wallets They are pursued and being taken and tryed the Son was hang'd the Father goes on his Pilgrimage and returneth Thirty six days after to the-body of his Son still hanging he maketh grievous lamentations till by and by the hanged Son began to comfort him saying Most dear Father weep not but rejoyce for I was never better in all my life St. James supports and comforts me with heavenly sweetness The Father overjoyed makes known the business the people flock together the man is taken down and the Host hanged up in his room I could shew you where St. David is said to have raised a Boy from the dead who afterwards waited upon him St. Patrick to have raised one from the dead that was almost devour'd by Hogs And St. Alban being to be Martyr'd people thronged to see his Martyrdom and crouding very hard by a deep River many fell in and were drown'd The Saint perceiving it prays that all might see his passion and to that purpose the Waters may be dryed up It was done accordingly and those that were drown'd before are now found safe at the bottom of the River Again whereas it is recorded that Jesus raised himself from the dead I can turn you to Records in great credit with you where some of your eminent Saints are reported to have done things little inferiour thereunto St. Dennis the Patron of France when his head was cut off carried that head of his two Miles in his hands