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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	lord_n	resurrection_n	2,986	5	9.7021	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30413	Romes glory, or, A collection of divers miracles wrought by popish saints, both during their lives and after their deaths collected out of their own authors for information of all true-hearted Protestants ; together with a prefatory discourse declaring the impossibility and folly of such vain impostures.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1673 (1673)	Wing B5868; ESTC R34774	41,373	148

the holy Virgin in great veneration and once being endangered by a Tempest at Sea he implored her assistance upon which the Tempest immediately ceased and he came safe to land Cr. p. 895. In the year of Grace a thousand and twelve the people of a Town of Saxony named Colewiz or Colbec being assembled in the Church dedicated to the Holy Martyr Magnus on the Vigil of our Lords Nativity the Priest named Robert according to custom began the first Solemn Mass. At the same time there were fifteen men and three women in the Church-yard dancing and singing profane Songs and they made such a noise that they hindred the Priest for their voices were louder than the Quire which sung at Mass. The Priest therefore sent to them once and again to be quiet but they contemned his command whereupon in great indignation he said May it please God and St. Magnus that you may continue singing thus till a year be passed Now what followed This imprecation of the Priest had such force that Azo a Son of the same Priest taking his Sister called Ava by the arm to draw her from the rest and she not being able to leave them he pulled her Arm from her body and yet not a drop of Blood was seen She therefore with the rest remained singing a whole year No rain fell upon them neither cold nor heat hunger nor thirst nor weariness troubled them Their cloathes and shooes were not worn out but they continued incessantly like mad people their singing They by dancing so wore away the ground that they sunk into the earth first to the knees and afterward to the middle the trench became so deep There was by their friends a kind of pent-house raised over them to defend them from the foul weather but there was no need of it At last when the year was ended Herebert Archbishop of Colen came to the place and absolved them from their bonds and bringing them before the Altar of St. Magnus he there reconciled them The Priests Daughter with two others presently gave up the ghost the rest slept three dayes and three nights without waking Some of them dyed shortly after but some remained many years alive and by a trembling of all their members published to the world their sin and punishment Cr. p. 919. Iudith Wife of Count Tosti desiring of Agelwin Bishop of Durham to bestow on her some portion of the Reliques of that glorious Martyr St. Oswin King of the Deiri received from him a large lock of his Hair altogether incorrupted And being desirous to confirm in Faith certain incredulous persons she caused a great Fire to be kindled in the midst of her Hall into which she cast the same Hair which received no prejudice at all but on the contrary a great lustere Whereupon the Countess by the Bishops order laid up the said Relique in a precious Repository Cr. p. 988. A certain Church being to be Consecrated to the honour of Saint Iohn the Evangelist devout King Edward the Confessor attended the Procession thither when upon a sudden a Person in a strangers habit pressing near the King earnestly begged an Alms of him for Saint Iohn's sake the King having charitably given away all the Money he brought thither took a rich Ring from off his finger and gave it to the stranger who returning him many thanks presently disappeared It happened afterward that two Englishmen went to adore the Sepulchre of our Saviour at Ierusalem who at their return lost their way and the night coming on them they were in great pain what would become of them Being in this perplexity they saw passing by them a company of beautiful young men in white shining garments before whom went two carrying Torches in their hands which took away all the obscurity of the night After them followed a comely Old man attended by two on each hand who looking aside and spying the two Pilgrims he stay'd asking them who and whence they were what Religion they professed who was their King and what was the cause of their journey thither They told him they were Englishmen and Christians that their Kings name was Edward that they came to visit the holy places of our Lords Passion and Resurrection and that the same day having wandred out of their way they knew not where to find lodging or entertainment Then the venerable Old man with a chearful countenance bid them follow him conducting them into a most beautiful City where they were most delicately nourished and lodged In the morning the same Old man brought them on their way and being out of the City he said to them My Brethren doubt not but God will give you a prosperous journey homeward I am John the Apostle and Evangelist your King I affectionately love for his chastity salute him in my name and to take from him all doubt restore him this Ring which at the Dedication of a Church to my name he gave me being then disguised in the habit of a Pilgrim tell him withal that the day of his death approaches and that six months hence I will visit him and conduct him after the Lamb who is alwayes attended by pure chast souls As soon as he had said these words they presently found themselves in their right way and with great joy returned home Whither being come they presented the Ring to the King acquainted him with the Oracle and taking him aside discovered to him what was told them of his death As soon as they had mentioned the Name of St. Iohn the King burst forth into tears and after he had diligently enquired of them touching the things they had seen and heard in their Journey he dismissed them with thanks Cr. p. 988. Thus you have some Miracles of Ignatius S. Anthony c. and a few of Mr. Cressy's many Stories of the Miracles of our English Saints if these gain your Acceptance you will oblige me farther to prosecute this Collection from more of their Legends and present you with another small Book of the like nature FINIS