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A30890	John Barclay his vindication of the intercession of saints, the veneration of relicks and miracles, against the sectaries of the times Book II. Chap. VII. Englished by a person of quality. With allowance.; Parænesis ad sectarios. Book 2, Chapter 7. English.	Barclay, John, 1582-1621.	1688 (1688)	Wing B716; ESTC R215790	13,055	23

lib. 5. cap. 18. There thou wilt read what a concourse of Christians there was when in the Reign of Julian the Apostate the Bones of St. Babilas were to be remov'd from the Suburb Daphne to Antioch and that together with the Women and Children rejoycing and singing Psalms they carried the Coffin Yea that Every one of them going before began to dance and that there were present at the Solemnity Men and Women young Men and Maids Old Men and Children Evagrius lib. 1. cap. 16. writes that the Bones of St. Ignatius were at the Command of Theodosius the Great Translated with exceeding Honour to Antioch For which cause says he there is even to our Age kept a Solemn Feast of common Joy. See how great and how much approv'd this Veneration was of which 't was thought fit to keep an Annual Commemoration Thou findst in St. Hierom against Vigilantius that the Bones of the Prophet Samuel were in his time brought from Palastine to Constantinople by the Command of Arcadius All the Bishops says he carried in a golden Vessel those Reliques wrapt in Silk He adds That the People of all the Churches went to meet the Holy Reliques which they received with as much Joy as if they had seen the Prophet present and alive So that from Palastine even to Chalcedon the Swarms of People were joyn'd together sounding forth with one voice the Praises of CHRIST With what Reverence also the Bones of St. Chrysostom were receiv'd when they were thirty five years after his Decease Translated to Constantinople thou hast related by Theodoret a Writer of that Age who in his Ecclesiastical History lib. 5. cap. 36. says thus The Faithful Assembly of Men making the Sea as it were a Continent by the Multitude of their Ships cover'd with the Lights the mouth of the Bosphorus lying near Propontis Nor mayst thou say that these were as Funural Honours which were in this manner given to the Saints and that Reliques were not in that Age remov'd unless it were from one Monument to another Nay Sectary these Sacred Pledges were for the avoiding of danger and the more Solemn Invocating of Almighty GOD brought forth of the Churches and sometimes carried even into the Camp. Evagrius lib. 1. cap. 13. relates That he saw the Head of St. Simeon the Monk sent to Philippicus the Emperors Son-in-Law who desir'd that some Reliques of Saints should be sent him To the end he might more successfully perform his Military Expeditions in the East And hence you see that 't is neither new nor any way Injurious to the Saints if their Reliques are divided into parts that they may be distributed to many For that Simeon was not Beheaded but having dy'd a Natural Death his Body was by the Christians not Disrespectfully torn in Pieces but Reverently and Piously divided Thou readest moreover in St. Augustin de Civit. Dei lib. 22. cap. 8. that the Reliques of St. Stephen were dispers'd in several places up and down Africk as at the Tibilitan Waters in the Castle of Synes at Calama Audituras Vzali and Hippo That they were Reverenc'd that Miracles were every where wrought at them By the Martyr by the Martyrs help at the Martyrs Request These are the Words of St. Augustin A person of very great Quality but alas a Sectary in whose Presence there was accidentally some Discourse concerning this so great Consent of our Ancestors in Venerating Reliques desirous not to dissolve but captiously to elude this Argument said that these were some Remains of the Idolatry then newly Abolish'd at which the Bishops of those times conniv'd that they might not seem altogether to oppose the Peoples Inclination O whoever thou art acknowledge the Vitiousness of Heresie which forces her Patrons on these Absurdities For if this had its Original from the Evil of Idolatry and not from Christian Vertue why did the Bishops themselves not only suffer it in the People but Instruct them in it as a part of Religious Piety Why did they refer the Rites and Solemnities of this Veneration to Almighty GOD as their Author Why also did GOD assert these things by Miracles For thou mayst hear no Unlearned nor Ignorant Person but the great St. Augustin who in his Confessions lib. 9. cap. 7. says thus Then didst thou in a Vision discover to thy aforemention'd Prelate St. Ambrose in what place lay conceal'd the Bodies of thy Holy Mortyrs St. Protasius and St. Gervasius which thou hadst for so many years reserv'd uncorrupted in Secret that thou mightst seasonably bring them forth to restrain a Feminine but Royal Fury to wit of Justina Augusta Mother to Valentinian who was an Arian and a great Enemy to the Catholicks For when these Bodies being digg'd up and brought forth were with fitting Honour Translated to Ambrose 's Cathedral not only those who were tormented with unclean Spirits as the same Devils confess'd were Cur'd but a certain Citizen also well known in the City who had ben many years blind having enquir'd and being told the Cause of the Multitudes rejoycing started up on a sudden and desir'd his Guide to lead him thither Whether being brought he besought Admission to touch with an Hankerchief the Bier of thy Saints whose Death was Precious in thy Sight Which he had no sooner done and put it to his Eyes but they were presently opened The same St. Augustin in his Treatise of the City of GOD lib. 22. cap. 8. has these words When Bishop Projectus brought the Reliques of the most glorious Martyr St. Stephen to the Tibilitan Waters there was a great Meeting and Flocking of the People to that place in Honour and Memory of the Saint There it happen'd that a certain Blind-woman begg'd she might be led to the Bishop as he was carrying those Holy Pledges She gave him some Flowers which she had brought along with her They were again return'd to her She put them to her Eyes and immediatly saw All the Company being in a maze she joyfully led the way alone having now no need of any one to guide her In the same place he relates many very great Miracles and as he says well known to himself wrought in several places at the Reliques of St. Stephen Amongst the rest five rais'd from the Dead some of which carri'd to the Reliques whilst to others their Garments having first touch'd the Reliques were apply'd to them after their Deaths How would ye O Sectaries hiss at these Stories related in the same stile and after the same manner were they Penn'd by any Writer of these Times when as now through Veneration to so great an Author ye Blush at them Recollect thy self O Sectary and thou wilt see that the Bones of the Martyrs were taken up not through any Idolatrous Custom but by the Command of Almighty GOD. Thou wilt see that 't is not only a lawful but also a Pious Action to apply Clothes and Handkerchiefs to their Bodies and from such an Application both to