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A07967	The Christians manna. Or A treatise of the most blessed and reuerend sacrament of the Eucharist Deuided into tvvo tracts. Written by a Catholike deuine, through occasion of Monsieur Casaubon his epistle to Cardinal Peron, expressing therin the graue and approued iudgment of the Kings Maiesty, touching the doctrine of the reall presence in the Eucharist.	R. N., fl. 1613.	1613 (1613)	STC 18334; ESTC S113011	204,123	290

wherein he immediately speaketh to Man persuading him without words and instructing him without Letters or Characters whereby his Diuine Godnesse hath vouchsafed to seale vp the truth of this high Mysterie for heere we may break forth with the Psalmist c Mirabilia testimonia tua Psal 120. Mirabilia testimonia tua and these not borrowed out of any fabulous Legend nor grounded vpon vncertaine hear-sayes but on the graue testimonies of most ancient and learned Authors and circumstanced with tyme place persons and other particulers of Morall Certaintie Examples hereof are diuers As that the B. Sacrament in proofe of our Catholike doctrine hath cured d Possessed persons In vita S. Bernard l. 2. c. 3. Where it is recorded that a woman being a long time most dangerously possessed with a Diuell S. Bernard bringing the Blessed Sacrament and houlding it ouer the head the of possessed person dispossessed the Diuell possessed persons That it hath to the same end appeared sometimes in the forme of a e Humane shape Paschasius lib. de Corpore Domini c. 14. mentioneth that a certaine godly Priest prayed denoutly vnto God that he would vouchsafe to let him see that Body which he verily belieued did lye vnder the formes of Bread and Wine who at the length obteyned his desire and saw the Body of our Sauiour in the shape of a yong child true humane shape That the misbelieuers or doubters therein haue beene f Punished by God S. Bernard in the life of S. Malachias reporteth that a Clergy-man denying the Body of Christ to be really in the Sacrament was oftentimes admonished by Malachias but he not acknowledging his Heresie Malachias prayed to God in these words Dominus faciat te veritatem confiteri vel ex necessitate to which words the Heretike said Amen Whereupon presently he was taken with a mortall disease acknowledged his Heresie was reconciled to the Church and instantly after dyed In like sort Tilmannus Bredenbach●us l. 6. Sacrarum collationū c. 60. reporteth that in a Citty of Geldria Anno 1561. die 8. Aprilis the Parish Priest of the Towne did carry after the custome of Catholikes the Blessed Sacrament to a sick woman and passing through a a streete where two yong youths were wagering whether of them could soonest swallow downe their Easter Egge the one of them being an Heretike said that he could sooner swallow downe his egge then the Woman could swallow her God wherupon he putting the Egge into his mouth the Egge did sticke in the middest of his throat and he perceauing the same did take a white candle which was neere to him and with it endeauoured to thrust the Egge downe but he fainting instantly dyed his face growing most black and vgly to behould And after he being opened the Egge was found not in the throate but in the other part called aspera Arteria or Wind-pipe punished by God euen with death Lastly to omit some of other kinds that the truth hereof hath beene confirmed by the testimonies such as they could giue euen of g Bruite Beastes Antoninus in summa historiali part 3. titul 24. c. 3. relateth that S. Antony disputing with a certaine Heretike who denyed the Reall Presence in the Countrey of To●osa the Heretike demaunded that the truth therof might be confirmed by S. Antony by some Miracle and said that he without some such proofe would not belieue the Reall Presence It was concluded betweene thē that the Heretike hauing an Oxe or some such beast he should forbeare to giue him any meate at all for the space of three dayes and then after S. Antony should bring the Blessed Sacrament where the Beast was and the Heretike should set before him some corne if then the Beast should not touch the corne but prostrate himselfe in such sort as he could before the Blessed Sacrament that then the Heretike would be content to belieue the Catholike doctrine therin All which being thus far prepared in the presence of infinite people S. Antony houlding the Eucharist in his hands spake to the Beast certaine words whereupon the Beast hauing Corne before him did eate no part thereof but with bowing downe his head and body did prostrate himselfe before the Blessed Sacrament to the great wonder and confirmation of the faithfull Another Example heere happened in our Coūtry in the Church of S. Paul in London as VValdensis reporteth who was there present tom 2. c. 63. A certaine Mechanicall fellow not belieuing the Reall Presence was conuented in the Church before the Arch-Bishop and obstinately answered the Bishop that he would rather worship a spider then the Eucharist at the speaking wherof instantly there came downe a huge Spyder by his threed or Web from the top of the Church hastning to enter into the Heretickes mouth which was preuented but by much difficulty of the standers by brute Beasts for it is said h Glorificabit me bestia Agri. Esay 43. Glorificabit me Bestia agri Thus Creatures which want Reason haue heere exceeded in vse thereof Men who only enioy Reason Yet doe they hould all such narrations but as forged wonders and condemne with a censorious temeritie the belieuers of such of a meere doting i Doting credulity So doe most of the Sacramentaries answere as thinking all such reportes to be meere fictions credulity or at the most repute them as prestigious k Sleights of the Diuell So answereth Peter Martyr to these Miracles lib. contra Gardinerum confirming this his answere from the Examples of Marcus and Magus who both being Arch-heretickes wrought appearing Miracles by the power of the Diuell But I would demand of Martyr what comparison is there betweene those Hereticks and these other holy Men Againe I say that this his Answere cannot be applied to those Miracles heere alledged which consist in the death of Men for their deaths were true deaths and not counterfaite or forged sleights of the Diuell But heere by the way we are to aduertise them that if indeed there were euer any such Miracles exhibited for the confirmation of the Catholike faith herein then is their Sacramentarian Heresy to be vtterly abolished If none such were euer performed then what greater Miracle then that an Article of Faith mainly impugning all sense and yet not warranted by any Miracle should for so many ages generally be belieued Or what stronger Reason in defence thereof then for it to be vnanimously imbraced and receaued being aboue Reason Let vs shew That as God was before the Diuell so Truth which receaueth her emanation and flowing from God the first Truth is more ancient then falshood the attendant of those Apostating reuolted spirits Thus is Antiquity the badge of Truth and Noueltie of Errour Now that the Catholike Faith of the Eucharist is more ancient then the Sacramentarian Heresy we proue euen from the Nature of the Conception Birth and Growth of euery Innouation of Faith Of our Faith there can be no instance