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A71073	A second discourse in vindication of the Protestant grounds of faith, against the pretence of infallibility in the Roman Church in answer to The guide in controversies by R.H., Protestancy without principles, and Reason and religion, or, The certain rule of faith by E.W. : with a particular enquiry into the miracles of the Roman Church / by Edward Stillingfleet ...	Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1673 (1673)	Wing S5634; ESTC R12158	205,095	420

places in France What doubt can be made of the several Locks of her Hair For although they believe her Body assumed up into Heaven yet no doubt saith Ferrandus by frequent combing enough would fall off to furnish the several Churches in Rome in Spain in France and other places with it What if so many places pretend to have the true Seamless Coat of Christ is it possible they should be any of them mistaken although there could be but one true one For it is a very weak defence of Ferrandus to say that there were many made after the likeness of the true one for all places contend that they have the true It were endless to give an account of multitudes of other Relicks which Ferrandus confesses to be equally challenged by many places and which he pitifully defends by such shifts as these are But it is not enough to shew in general that there can be no sufficient credibility in the Testimony given to the Relicks of the Roman Church but I shall now shew it more particularly concerning this Vial of St. Mary Magdalen This Vial is supposed to be of her own bringing into France and it is worth the while to know how she came thither Thus the story is related in the Roman Breviary After Christs Ascension to Heaven Martha with her Sister Mary whom they suppose to be Mary Magdalen and with her Brother Lazarus and their servant Marcella and Maximinus one of the seventy Disciples of our Lord with many other Christians were put into a Ship by the Jews without any Sail or Oars that they might perish by Shipwrack but by the Providence of God the Ship came safe to Marseilles by which Miracle and Preaching the inhabitants of Marseilles and of Aix and the neighbour people were converted and Lazarus was made Bishop of Marseilles and Maximinus of Aix But Mary Magdalen having accustomed her self to prayer and a contemplative life retired into a hollow Cave of a very high Mountain where she continued thirty years separated from all conversation with men and every day was carried up by Angels to hear the Choire of Angels Sing This is contained in the fourth and fifth Lessons on July 29. in the present Roman Breviary but we are to consider that this story was not always in the Roman Breviary for those who reformed it under Pius the fifth had left it out but since it hath been thought fit to be restored again it being much for the edification of the people to hear such Legends For there is not the least pretence in Antiquity for any part of it as a Learned Doctor of the Sorbon hath at large proved shewing in a set Discourse that for a thousand years after Christ it was the constant tradition of the Greek and Latin Church that Lazarus Martha and Magdalen all dyed in the Eastern parts and not a word said of Maximinus that the whole story is taken out of a very fabulous Book pretended to be Written by Marcella the servant to Martha in the Hebrew Tongue and Translated by one Synthex into Latin and preserved by Vincentius in his History It may not be amiss to set down some of the Miracles contained in this story one is of the Persons who accompanied them and the places assigned to them as Trophimus was sent to Arles Paulus to Narbon Eutropius to Aurange Austregesilus to Eourges Irenaeus to Lyons Ferrutius to Bezan●on and Dionysius is placed over all France Was there eve● better company put together when Irenaeus dyed A. D. 205. Eutropius A. D. 464. Austr●gistlus A. D. 629. and Trophimus Paulus Martialis Saturninus and Dionysius are by the most Learned Writers of France cast back as far as the time of Decius and Ferrutius was a Disciple of Irenaeus It would be too tedious to relate Mary Magdalens Preaching at Marseilles notwithstanding St. Pauls prohibition which the Author saith she had not heard of but assoon as she did she retired into her Cave the manner of the conversion of the Governour of Marseilles and his Lady their going towards Hierusalem her death upon the birth of her Child in the passage St. Peters conducting him to Hierusalem seeing the badge of the Cross on his shoulders the miraculous education of the Child by sucking the breasts of his dead Mother who was found by his Father on the shore after two years playing with stones and running upon all four the Resurrection of the Mother their return to Marseilles where they found Mary Magdalen Preaching to a multitude of people the monstrous Dragon tamed by Martha with a little holy water and the sign of the Cross which was thicker than an Oxe longer than a Horse had the head of a Lyon and the strength of twelve Lyons and was supposed to be of the race of the Leviathan mentioned in Job and came by Sea from Galatia being b●gotten of the Leviathan on a strange beast of that Country which kills by its scent the length of an acre and what ever it touches it burns like fire these and several other such pleasant Miracles I purposely omit which Launoy calls more than old wives Tales by which Christian Religion is dishonoured and men are abused which make the enemies of Christianity despise it and fill its friends with indignation to hear so holy a Religion so horribly corrupted by the impudent lies of idle men But after all these things thus laid together can we do otherwise than believe that the Blood of Christ is kept in the Vial of St. Mary Magdalen in the Church of St. Maximin and that it boyls up every year on the day of our Saviours Passion § 6. The next thing we are to consider is the Miracles recorded in the lives of those two admirable Saints B. St. Dominick and Seraphical St. Francis The first Miracle we read of concerning St. Dominick was the miraculous prediction concerning him in the two pictures in St. Marks Church in Venice reported by no meaner a person than St. Antonin E. W's pious and learned Arch-bishop of Florence One in the likeness of St. Paul with those words over it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and under these Per istum itur ad Christum over the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and under Facilius itur per istum it seems St. Paul was but a very ordinary Preacher if compared wtth the Founder of the order of Preaching Fryers But this prediction did not so plainly set him forth as the Vision his Mother had near her time of travel with him viz. that she bore a Whelp which carried a fire-brand in his mouth which set the whole World on Fire which had its full accomplishment by his being the first Author of the blessed Inquisition for he was a true fire brand having not near so much light as heat in him Jansenius tells us that he had no kind of mercy upon Hereticks that he was rather a Lyon than a

man in his carriage towards them And was not this a fit person to be compared with our blessed Saviour as he is most blasphemously by E. W's most modest Prelate Antonin wherein he is followed by Jansenius They might as well have compared Light and Darkness tenderness and cruelty a Wolf and a Lamb together But the most blasphemous comparison of all others in that which St. Katharine of Siena said she had by Revelation from God and is repeated after her by Lewis of Granada and Jansenius viz. That she saw the Eternal Father producing his Son out of his mouth and St. Dominick out of his breast Whereupon he said to her my dear Child thou seest how I have produced these two Sons where of the one is my Son by Nature and the other by Adoption and so proceeds in an admirable comparison between them as Jansenius thinks it but we may well use his own words though with a far different meaning Quis verò hic non miretur ac stupeat For who can choose but wonder and be astonished at such horrible blasphemy to see a fire-brand compared in such a manner with the Eternal Son of God But what was it this B. Dominick did to be thought to come so near to Christ why forsooth Christ was laid in a Manger and St. Dominick when an Infant would not lie in his Cradle but would throw himself out of it and lie upon the bare ground when Christ was born a star appeared to the wise men and when St. Dominick was baptized his Godmother fancied she saw a star in his forehead Christ went at twelve years old to the Temple and St. Dominick was carried to Church by his Parents and there left to be instructed O admirable comparisons But yet further St. Dominicks Fathers name was Felix and his Mothers Joanna now Joanna saith Antonin is as much as full of Grace and the Angel in his salutation said to the blessed Virgin Ave Maria gratia plena Can any thing be now plainer than this comparison between our Saviour and St. Dominick But it may be he wrought some special Miracles in which he came near to Christ. I shall mention some of them by which we may make a judgement of the credibility of the rest One particular thing which St. Antonin instances in was St. Dominicks power over Devils and in truth he was very extraordinary in this Jansenius hath already put together several instances to my hands It seems the Devil used to trouble him in several shapes but he was never more vexed with him than when he flew up and down while he was Preaching to the Sisters so my Author calls them in the shape of a Sparrow He perceiving the Devils cunning called to Sister Maximilla to catch him and deliver him to him She did so who had no sooner got him into his hands but he falls to the pulling him crying out still Enemy Enemy Till at last he left not a Feather upon him and then insulted over him and bid him fly now if he could The poor Sparrow hop'd up and down till at last he got under a Brass Lamp before the Altar of the blessed Virgin and down he tumbles that when behold a mighty Miracle the Lamp hanging by a Chain fell not to the ground and which was more not a drop of oyl spilt but at St. Dominicks command the Lamp was put in its right place and the Sparrow disappeared But the Devil was never so abused as when he appeared in the shape of a Monky when St. Dominick was writing late at night and the Devil was shewing Monky-tricks round about him Saint Dominick nodded to him to stand still and hold his Candle for him The Devil could not yet leave his old tricks but at last the Candle was almost burnt out and the Monkys Tees began to burn then he made a lamentable noise still St. Dominick commanded him by his nod for he would not vouchsafe to speak to the Devil to stand still which he was fain to do till his Toe was burnt and then St. Dominick soundly lashed him and sent him going I would not be thought to pick these things out of old Legends that are disowned by themselves but I assure the Reader these things are not only contained in the ancient and approved Writers of St. Dominicks life but in Nicol. Jansenius the latest and most elegant of them whose Book was Printed at Antwerp A. D. 1622. And he further tells us that the Devil finding no good was to be done this way was resolved to set upon him by main force and finding him once so intent at Prayers that no noise would disturb him he takes a huge stone from the top of the Church and throws it at his head but hit only his Cowle But when he saw he could not stir him with all this he went sneakingly away This happened he saith in the Church of St. Sabina where the stone is still to be seen and is of the bigness of a great Holland Cheese saith Jansenius and as black as pi●oh One time the Devil came to him to confession but St. Dominick presently smelt him out and so rated him that he sent him away speedily to Hell If he met with possessed persons he had a trick that he could make them confess what he had a mind to For we are to understand that the blessed Virgin among many singular favours she had shewed to St. Dominick had taught him such a way of praying as was never known before the most effectual against Devils and all sorts of enemies that could be which is sometimes called the Psalter of the blessed Virgin sometimes only the Rosary consisted of one hundred and fifty Ave Marys and fifteen Pater Nosters This excellent device was revealed to him after his Body had had three days conversation with Bryers and Thorns in the Woods near Tholouse when the blessed Virgin saith Alanus de Rupe commended it to him as the most effectual means to reform the World and therefore commanded him to Preach and inculcate this in all places Assoon as ever he began to Preach it up it is not to be thought how the Devils were alarm'd at it strange Thunders and Lightenings and Earthquakes immediately happened upon it St. Dominick goes on and at last the Devils were heard to cry out through the Air Wo wo to us we are bound by this Psalter with Chains of Fire St. Dominick having thus found out what would hamper the Devils he made use of it upon occasion for finding a person possessed with several Devils he ties the Rosary of Beads about his neck and then made the Devils confess what he pleased and at last they acknowledged that no man that continued in the use of the Rosary could go to Hell Upon this he bids the people fall to their Rosary and at every Ave Maria a Devil went out from the person as black as a Coal Was ever any thing like this

St. Brigid But it may be this must pass for another Miracle that he should see things that were done before he was born We think the preservation of Moses when a Child was extraordinary but what was that to the miraculous preservation and education of St. Kyned The Son● saith Capgrave of a Prince of little Britain by his own Daughter who being delivered she exposed him to the River in a Wicker-Cradle in which he was carried to the Sea and at last was cast upon an Istand called in the British tongue Henisweryn and on a sudden the Sea fowl gathered about him and by their Bills and Claws took him out of the water and carried him into the Air and at last placed him upon a Rock making a bed of Feathers for him and driving away Serpents and hurtful creatures and shelter'd him from Wind and Hail and Snow by joyning their wings together over him While the Child lay thus before nine days were passed an Angel came to him and brought him a Brass Bell and put the Childs mouth to it and when the Child was hungry it turned it self and sucked of the Bell which afforded nourishment sweeter than any milk and of so subtle a nature that he voided no excrements Thus he continued till he could walk and the swaddling cloaths in which he was wrapt grew to him as bark to a Tree just as he grew Afterwards a wild Doe came twice a day and filled the Bell with Milk thus he continued eighteen years being taught to read by an Angel But although he changed his place yet still he continued an Eremitical life once St. David desired him to go to a Council with him he excused himself because of his deformity St. David prayed for the cure of it and he was heal'd St. Kyned prayed for the return of it and he was as bad as ever This Miracle Alford relates although he thinks the Writers of his Life have exceeded a little too much in his Miracles But to my mind St. Kyneds sucking of a Bell was not so strange as St. Berachs sucking St. Froegius his ear which Colganus very gravely relates No sooner was St. Berach born but St. Froegius his Uncle took care of him and told his Mother God was able to bring him up without the help of Milk and he gave him his right ear to suck by which he was as plentifully nourished as if he had sucked all the while at his Mothers breast If Caepgrave had had the trimming of this story he would have added that this was sweeter than any milk Colganus as he had reason is very angry with those that say St. Froegius his ear gave milk for although saith he it were possible for God to make his ear give milk yet it is not probable because other way● might serve as well for his nourishment We read not of any Miracles wrought by Christ himself till he entred upon his Preaching but these Saints began very early and some of them held out to a mighty Age for St. David lived to 147. St. Fintan to 125. St. Mochaius to 150. and St. Cathubius as long St. Finnian to 180. St. Kentigern 185. but St. Kieran for 300. years saith the Author of his life near 300. saith the Lesson upon his day St. Abban 300. St. Mochteus 300. In all which time he neither spake an idle word nor eat fat meat so the Author of his Life saith but the old Verses cited by Colganus say That in all that time he neither spake nor eat and others that speak more moderately say That in one hundred years he eat nothing A pretty reasonable fast for any man But to be sure much exceeding that of Christ himself but that is not our present business which is to shew how very early they began to work Miracles It is hardly conceivable they should begin sooner than in their Mothers Wombs and while St. Fursey was in his Mothers Womb he very severely rebuked his Grandfather for thinking to condemn his Mother without any reasonable cause Colganus confesses that this was a very great Miracle but justifies it as the Author of his Life doth from Gods omnipotency Yet Bollandus would fain in his Notes have it softened and made more probable viz. That a voice was heard to that purpose and that some thought the Child spake in his Mothers Womb but he confesses the ancient Mss. are express that it was the Child the hymns of the Church are plain to that purpose Matris intra viscera Loquens avi nequioris arguebat scelera Which were Sung upon his day saith Arnoldus Wion from whom Bollandus had them and we hope they were more honest than to praise God for that which they did not believe Was St. John Baptist's leaping in his Mothers belly to be compared to this But they have a better instance to parallel this viz. St. Nicholas his fasting Wednesdays and Fridays while he suckt his Mothers breasts or which is all one sucking but once on those days which I suppose being after Vespers made it a good fast but methinks in honour to the Church of Rome Saturday should have been one of his Fasting-days But commend me for devotion to St. Mocht●us that leapt in his Mothers Womb at Canonical hours a good presage certainly of his future devotion For a Child new born scarcely any went beyond St. Cathaldus for assoon as he was born he struck his head against a piece of Marble and the Marble yielded like wax to him and when his Mother expired at her delivery the Child raised up himself without any help and embracing his Mother in his Arms he raised her to life again Was not this a towardly beginning for a Child Had not St. Alred a very clear complexion whose face Arch deacon William in Capgrave saw shining like the Sun with such bright beams that his hand gave a shadow being held towards him from whence he had reason to think he would prove an extraordinary man in his time It seems to be now no great matter that S. Aldelm should make a Child to speak at nine days old to vindicate the Innocency of the Pope and although Mr. Cressy speaks doubtfully of this matter yet surely there is no more reason to question it than many other Miracles related by him and his Authors for it was read in the Lessons upon his day Capgrave saith that St. Ninian commanded a Child who was but few days old to declare who was his own Father the Child presently obeyed and pointed with his finger and openly said such a man was his Father Was not this an early sign of a wise Child But never was there certainly a more early Confessor than St. Romwold of whom Capgrave relates that being newly born he cryed out he was a Christian and presently made a most elaborate confession of his Faith hardly short of that of Athanasius in its exactness in the point