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A29396	The school of the Eucharist established upon the miraculous respects and acknowledgments, which beasts, birds, and insects, upon several occasions, have rendred to the Holy Sacrament of the altar : whence Catholicks may increase in devotion towards this divine mystery, and hereticks find there their confusion / by F. Toussain Bridoul ... ; printed in French at Lille, 1672, and now made English, and published ; with a preface concerning the testimony of miracles.; Escole de l'Eucharistie. English	Bridoul, Toussaint, 1595-1672.; Clagett, William, 1646-1688.	1687 (1687)	Wing B4495; ESTC R9439	58,294	76

this rather more than to Miracles Thus to fix the two doubting Disciples that were going to Emaus he upbraided them in this manner O Fools Luke xxiv 25 26 17. and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his Glory And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself This method was indeed suitable to the obligation that people were under to examine all New Revelations by their correspondence with the Old And for this Reason I make no doubt but that our Saviour in his discourse upon what Moses and All the Prophets had foretold concerning Christ did not omit to bring to their minds what Miracles himself had wrought in the sight of the people because this would naturally fall under that head of Prophecies which foretold that part of his Testimony But then still it was the Testimony of the old Scriptures into which the Testimony of his Miracles was in great part resolved For there he laid the aggravation of their Incredulity O Fools and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken It was foretold That when God should come to save them The eyes of the blind should be opened Isa xxxv 4 5 6. the ears of the deaf should be unstopped the lame man should leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb should sing To which Predictions our Saviour seemed to refer in that Answer which he gave to the two Disciples sent by John the Baptist Go Matt. xi 4 5. says he and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see The blind receive their sight and the lame walk and the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear and the dead are raised up For besides that there is no great variation of the Phrase from the words of the Prophet there is another mark added which had nothing in it of Miracle viz. And the poor have the Gospel preached to them Isa lxi 1. but then it was foretold by the Prophet The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek This was in it self a good mark no less than the other but both received strength from the Predictions of the Scripture I make no question but that many believed in Jesus chiefly for his Works sake before they had much considered the correspondence of his Doctrine to Moses and the Prophets but it seemeth also that one reason of their forwardness was this that they expected according to the Prophets that he should come with wonderful works For thus we find in St. John that the people who believed in him said When Christ cometh Joh. vii 31. will he do more Miracles than those which this man hath done In saying of which they discovered an expectation of a Messias that should work Miracles Now when Christ came into the World to fulfil all that had been foretold of him in the Scriptures he indeed and his Apostles after him wrought such Miracles as without all question had been sufficient means of Conviction if God had not thought fit to raise first and then to answer the expectation of other Testimonies besides Miracles In a matter of this high concernment to mankind he was pleased to give us Testimony upon Testimony and not only the Testimony of Miracles added to others but some such Miracles too as are in themselves convincing as that of Raising from the Dead And we may boldly say That God who has given us caution against Signs and Wonders never yet suffered so great a temptation to happen as that any one should be raised from the Dead in confirmation of a false Doctrine and this notwithstanding the bold stories of I know not how many that have been said to be raised from the Dead in the Church of Rome But now as strong an Argument as this is by it self yet St. Peter in his first Sermon to the Jews Acts ii 22. having observed that Jesus of Nazareth was a man approved of God by Miracles signs and wonders which God had done by him in the midst of them and then proceeding to that most convincing sign of all viz. the Resurrrection of Jesus from the dead he did not think fit to lay the whole stress upon the Nature of the thing it self but produced that prediction of David concerning it V. 25. Psal xvi 10. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thy holy One to see corruption And from this prediction of the thing he argued industriously as you may see to prove that the Testimony of the Resurrection was a Divine Testimony David Acts ii 31 32. says he seeing this before spake of the Resurrection of Christ c. And then he affirms the Fact and offers the proof of it This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we all are witnesses The same St. Peter affirming the reality of that miraculous testimony which our Lord received in the Holy Mount made no doubt to prefer the Testimony of the Scripture before that Testimony We have not says he followed cunningly devised fables 2 Pet. 1.16.17.18 when we made known unto you the coming and power of our Lord Jesus but were eye-witnesses of his majesty for he received from God the Father honour and glory when there came forth such a voice to him from the excellent glory This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased and this voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount Now altho this was in it self a very clear and convincing Testimony yet St. Peter who understood these things as well as any that have sat in his Chair rather refers Christian people to the Testimony of the Scriptures in those remarkable words We have also a more sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn V. 19. and the day-star arise in your hearts Where the Old Testament is called a word of Prophesie because the great business of those Holy Books was to prepare mankind for the coming of Christ by all kinds of prediction and now that Christ was come if there remained any darkness or doubting in their minds who had seen or known other Testimonies given to Jesus they were to take heed to the word of Prophesie and diligently observe the correspondence of the event to all things that had been foretold concerning Christ in doing of which their doubts would by degrees vanish and at last they would grow to a clear and strong perswasion And St. Peter therefore calls the word of Prophesie a sure word because it is in it self the best means to make us sure Nor was this forgotten by St. Austin in that Discourse of which I have already cited some part De