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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33542	Bourignianism detected, or, The delusions and errors of Antonia Bourignon, and her growing sect which may also serve for a discovery of all other enthusiastical impostures / by John Cockburn.	Cockburn, John, 1652-1729.	1698 (1698)	Wing C4804; ESTC R17688	48,522	82

he was a continued Series of God's Word and Discourse with her and of hers with him And again She had so often those Communications with God which he reckons up in the Second Classis that they were very common with her by which God communicated to her the intimate Knowledge of Things Divine and Humane Matters of Right and Fact Things Speculative and Practical Things Mystical Things appertaining to Faith and Morality Things Future and Prophetick such as are the Last Things of which she has often spoken Finally He makes a kind of Union between God and her Soul and says That they spoke to one another as two Friends use to do and that the Discourse which she had with God as well as that which He had with her proceeded not from her self but from the motion of God which prompted her to speak and that her Books are filled with such Divine Conferences The Prophets and Apostles were Men of like Passions and Infirmities with others and several instances of their frailty are upon Record at the Direction and Inspiration of the infinite Wisdom of God But this Anonymous Advocate for Antonia Bourignon as well as the other above mentioned who continued and enlarged the History of her Life begun by her self I say he will not allow her to be guilty of any slip or inadvertency or failing in Word or Deed unworthy of the Spirit of God it self As it is in the Leipsick Transactions Tantâ cum Religione veneratur ut Soloecismos ejus in stylo errata dictamini divino tribuat He justifies all she said or did by Parallels from the Prophets from Christ and the Apostles and confidently asserts That the Opposition she meets with the Prejudices and Out-cries against her or her Doctrine proceed from the same Spirit and Principles which persecuted them For to give you his Sentiments in short She was the Purest the most Dis-interested and Self-denied Soul and the most resigned to God that ever was upon Earth The World and all that is in the World was of no Value to her she was perfectly denied to all Sense and to every thing that depended upon Imagination In her Divine Conferences that is her conversation with God she used neither Ideas nor Meditations but was in an admirable vacuity of all Desire of knowing either this or that having no will of her own nor any Inclination nor Fondness for any Sentiment no not the most intimate and most divine but a total perfect and most accomplished Resignation for receiving what it would please God to communicate to her and no other thing with an absolute Resolution to execute whatever would please God tho' in doing it it behoved to combat the World and Hell and lose a Thousand Lives In this Habitual and Invariable State where she continued from the Eighteenth year of her Age to the last moment of her Life None but God alone could act in the Fund of her Soul in all those several ways mentioned And the whole Conduct of such a Person could not be but Divine seeing she was united to God by a perfect Resignation Now that the Reputation of Antonia Bourignon may not stand upon the Credit of two obscure and unknown Authors who were afraid to expose their Names that what hath been said may not be thought their particular Rhapsodies I will confirm the same by Instances from some who have publickly owned it and do glory in it I will begin with Monsieur de Cort one of her first Disciples who was Superiour of the Oratory and Pastor of Saint Iohn at Mechlin and who as it is said lost his Life in her Cause This Man in a Letter to the Vicar-General of the Archbishoprick of Mechlin after having told him how he had happened to read that Passage 2 Kings xxii about Hilkiah's finding the Book of the Law of the Lord and sending to Huldah the Prophetess to enquire about it he writes That having made a very serious Reflection upon all this he was touched with a sensible Grief considering that we have here an Excellent Woman a Friend of God the Favourite of Jesus the Organ of the Holy Ghost who is greater than Huldah to whom God has communicated himself extraordinarily and to whom he has discovered all his Secrets She never yet deceived any person was always faithful firm constant immoveable She possesseth the Holy Ghost with his Gifts of Wisdom Understanding Knowledge Piety Courage Counsel fear of God and together with these she possesses the Twelve Fruits of the same Spirit Charity Joy Peace Patience Longanimity Goodness and the rest The Eight Beatitudes do also shine in her she lives not to her self but altogether to God she speaks as she lives and she lives as she speaks Her words are Lively Efficacious and Operative they are conform to the Gospel and the other Scriptures Her Life is altogether miraculous And I do remember that which your Reverence hath often said to me how that she was an admirable Maid that there was never found her like we are happy to have such a Treasure and truly she hath the Holy Ghost Moreover I remember how I have brought Letters to her in which you have earnestly desired her Prayers for your self and for your Friends recommending to her many particular Affairs and ●ow as concerning the Publick in the time of Universal Scourges in all these Dangers no body consults her no body makes Prayers to her no body employs her These Thoughts have touched my Heart very sensibly As for me I have thanked you and do still thank you infinitely because God inspired you to send me to this Creature I never received neither from Arch-Bishop nor from Bishops nor from Pastors nor from my Directors and Superiours nor from Saints nor from God himself immediately more good than from her by God only I beseech you for the Honour of God for the Good of the Church for your own private good and for the good of all those who are under your Charge to consult her and to believe her as to that which she shall tell you from God concerning these deplorable Times St. Ierome says That Deuteronomium est secunda Lex Evangelicae legis praefiguratio that is Deuteronomy or the Book that was found in the time of Huldah is the Second Law or the Second Establishment of the Law of God and that it is a Figure of what shall be under the Evangelical Law Now I am of the Mind that the Evangelical Law which was first Established and afterwards forgotten and lost shall be renewed and re-established as Deuteronomy was a Second time under the Ministry of this New Huldah This Letter is prefixed to the Treatise which bears the Title of The Word of God or the interiour Life of Madamoiselle Bourignon Where also there are Extracts of some Letters of the same Vicar-General bearing a Testimony unto her Here we have had one bearing witness to Antonia Bourignon not upon