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A46959	Purgatory prov'd by miracles collected out of Roman-Catholick authors : with some remarkable histories relating to British, English, and Irish saints : with a preface concerning the miracles.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing J837; ESTC R11404	43,137	48

venerial motions and immodest postures before the whole Assembly And then becoming as it were distracted they fell bitterly upon one another changing their superficial Love into Cruelty and Hatred And then were by the Infernals in like manner as the former as also all Fornicators are with punishments beyond description Then two Backbiters enter'd with wry faces and odd grimaces The two heads of a burning Spear were put into their mouths which knawing upon with distorted looks they quickly met at the middle and then tearing one another they all embru'd their faces with biting Then Thieves Incendiaries and Violators of holy places were introduc'd and were rack●d by the Devils upon burning Wheels and sundry other Instruments of torment The Rustick likewise saw near the entrance of the lower Hall as it were four Streets the first was full of innumerable Furnaces and Cauldrons fill'd with flaming Pitch other Liquids and boiling of souls whose heads were like those of black Fishes in the seething Liquor The second had its Cauldrons stor'd with Snow and Ice to torment souls with horrid Cold. The third had thereof boiling Sulphur and other materials affording the worst of stinks for the vexing of souls that had wallow'd in the filth of Lust. The fourth had Cauldrons of a most horrid salt and black Water Now sinners of all sorts were alternately tormented in these Cauldrons Now returning to the Temple upon the Mount of Joy the Rustick had a sight of the introduction of pure white souls and was made sensible how much they were help'd to the possession of eternal Joys by the means of the Masses of their Friends in the World nay and saw many of his Acquaintance dancing Attendance upon St. Michael for admittance That Saint likewise shew'd him the several Mansions and Apartments of those that gradually mounted up to infinite Happiness and how they at certain hours each day heard Canticles from Heaven as if all the sorts of Musick in the World had joyn'd in consort Then he led him to a place all bedeckt with infinite variety of Flowers and Herbs having a most clear Fountain branching it self into four streams of a various Liquor and colour Upon this Fountain stood a most beautiful Tree of a wonderful bigness and immense height affording all sorts of Fruits and the flavour of all Spices Under this Tree near the Fountain lay a man of a graceful mien and Gigantick stature having a Vestment on from his breast to his feet of various colours and wonderful beauty he seem'd to laugh with one Eye and weep with the other This is Adam quoth St. Michael who by his smiling Eye denotes the joy he receives from the ineffable glorification of his Sons that are to be ●aved and by the other weeping one denounces the sorrow he undergoes on the account of the rebrobation of some of his Sons and the just Judgment of God upon the damned The Vestment with which he is covered but not a compleat Robe is the Vest of Immortality and Glory which he was stript of at his first prevarication for he began to receive this Vest from Abel his just Son till now thro' the whole succession of his just Sons And as the Elect shine with various Virtues so this Vest is pictured of a various colour When the number of the Elect Sons shall be compleat then Adam shall be all over cloath'd with a Robe of Immortality and Glory and so the World shall be at an end Then the Saint led the Rustick into a much more ravishing place than any yet seen and there shew'd him St. Catharina St. Margareta and St. Ositha whose beauty having admired St. Michael bid St. Iulian convey him back to his Body and accordingly did so but how is not known He lay as it were in a Trance for two days and two nights after but after that repairing to Church he was sollicited by the Priest and his Parishoners to acquaint them with his Revelations but he declining so to do St. Iulian appear'd to him the night following and commanded him to gratifie them in that point And in obedience to the Saint he gave an account of his Vision in the English Tongue with such Eloquence as created admiration in all his Auditors and the more as having been known to have ever been a man of narrow sence and few words The occasion of the Institution of a set and solemn day for the Praying for Souls out of Purgatory THE Cardinal Peter Damian a very holy and very learned man writes in the Life of St. Odilo Abbot of Cluny who died in the year of our Lord 1048 that a Religious man of France returning from Hierusalem was by a Tempest carried to an Island or Rock where there was an holy Hermite who told him that there hard by were great burning flaming fires where the souls of the Dead were tormented that he heard the Devils oftentimes howl and complain for that by the Prayers and Alms of the Faithful the pains which those souls suffered were mitigated and the souls freed out of their hands and that particularly they complained of Odiolo Abbot and his Monks for their care and vigilance in favouring and helping them and conjured the Religious man because he was a French-man and knew the Monastery of Cluny as he said and the Abbot Odilo to entreat the said Abbot and to charge him in his name to persevere in that holy Exercise and by his fervent Prayers and continual Alms to endeavour to give refreshment to the souls of our Brethren that are tormented in Purgatory that so the joy of the Blessed might be increased in Heaven and the sorrow of the Devils in Hell. The Religious man returned into France communicated that which he had heard of the holy Hermite with Odilo Abbot and with all that blessed Congregation which was under his charge And the Abbot ordained that in all his Monasteries upon the second of November the day after the Festivity of All Saints should be made a particular Commemoration of the Dead and that especial care should be used to succour and relieve them by Prayers Alms and Masses And that which St. Odilo instituted in his Convents was afterwards received and established by Apostolical Authority in the whole Universal Church Peter Galefinus Protonotary Apostolical says that many write that Pope Iohn XVI instituted this Commemoration by the counsel and advice of St. Odilo It is true that Almarius Fortunatus Bishop of Trevers who lived about 200 years before Odilo in a Book of the Ecclesiastical Offices which he wrote to Ludovicus Pius Emperour after the Office of the Saints he puts that of the Dead and he says that he did so because many depart out of this Life who do not go presently to Heaven for whom that Office was wont to be said which is a sign that even in his time this was done as Cardinal Baronius has noted And this is sufficient to declare the Institution of this Commemoration of the