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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26209	Digitus dei or God appearing in his wonderfull works For the conuiction of nullifidians.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. De civitate Dei. Book 22. Chapter 8. English. aut	1676 (1676)	Wing A4208; ESTC R213574	43,921	115

Clement native of Bruxelles who was of so deformed a shape his thighs and his feet being contracted and turn'd upwards towards the fore-part of his breast so as his knees did grow and stick thereto his body round or sphericall unfit to stand lie or go and had been so and known to be so by the whole town of Bruxelles for twenty years that was from his nativity or rather from the time of his being cut out of his mothers womb after she was dead in labour of so monstrous a creature This poor man then as Justus Lipsius relates in his foresaid book and fourty fifth chapter in the year of our Lord 1603. and moneth of July being moved in his mind to go to our Ladies Chappel at Sichem in Brabant where he had heard of many miraculous cures reported to have been done was carried thither in a wagon and having done his devotions with much fervour and confidence in conclusion he felt his contracted and bound up thighs and feet to be loosed and stretched forth so as presently he stood on his feet to the great amazement both of himself and the beholders who had seen in what a sad condition he had entred into the holy place that very day Lipsius professeth that he himself examined the ablest physicians he could meet with about this accident and they all confessed though some of them saies he not at all credulous of things of this nature that this was certainly an effect of the powerfull hand of God And the thing was made so publique by the discourse of all that sundry gentlemen attendants of the Earle of Hartford then Ambassadour in those parts made it their business to be satisfied of the truth of things as well by seeing and interrogating the party himself as by other publick and authentique testimonies of the fact and could not discover any thing with reason to except against This is fresh as I may say having happened in the very age we live in I might also think it very reasonable to exact some credit to be given to those strange things done in the other world I mean in the Indies by the meanes and intercession of the great Apostle of those parts St. Francis Xaverius in the times neighbouring close to our age also The particulars whereof were examined with very great strictness by the express command of the king of Portugall and attested by the oaths of so many persons of worth and reputation that the Author of the book called Rerum in Oriente gestarum Commentarius may well be allowed to say as he does pag. 8. and be believed that upon execution of the said King of Portugalls commission to his Viceroy for examining the said miracles c. and Certificate thereupon being made it did appear that Xaverius in testimony and proof of the Christian faith by him then preached and taught cured miraculously the dumb the lame the deaf and with his word healed the sick and fol. 9. raised sundry dead persons to life and that after his death as is there related fol. 14 Anno 1552. the grave being opened wherein his dead body for a time had lain buried in lime to the end his naked bones might be carried from thence to Goa fol. 15. they found his body not only unconsum'd but also yeilding forth fragrant smells although in the severe triall and search made by command of some great-ones it was found that he was neither embalmed nor bowelled His body is still kept at Goa Where to this day sayes the Commentary it remaineth free from corruption witness whereof saith the said Treatise are all the Inhabitants of that City and travellers that repaire thither It is not many years since that Commentary was written which speaks in this manner of that holy Saints body remaining incorrupt to that very day And to our comfort the same wonder still continues even in our daies as very late information assures us especially from the mouth of a worthy grave person whose care it was for five years together to see it decently kept and who was a daily Eye-witness during that time of the miracle Neither has Almighty God been backward in his favours to Europe also by the meanes of the same great Apostle as might be evidenced by most authentique proofs had I not transgress'd too farr in this point already And yet in this I hope no very unpleasant subject I must beg your leave to insist a little longer at least till I have minded you of that famous miracle wrought upon the person of Marcello Mastrilli in Naples in the year 1584. on the third of Jan. in some of our memories I am sure of it You may see it more at large in Bartoli or in the late learned Treatise of Reason and Religion written by E. W. with the proofs and unquestionable testimonies thereof There are those yet living as you may easily guess who were witnesses of the wonder and saw with their eyes a man despaired of by all the Physicians and surgeons who having layn most dangerously sick of a violent feavour caused by a terrible wound received in his head twenty-four-dayes together withall the symptoms imaginable of death upon him insomuch that all things necessary for his buriall were put in a readiness upon a sudden and almost in a moment as I may say by a visible apparition of that great Apostle St. Francis Xaverius and by the application only of certain holy relicks according to the direction of the said Saint so perfectly restored to health that he who for many daies before had not been able to turn or stirr himself in his bed immediately rose nimbly out of it threw off the linnen with which the wound of his head was bound up cast himself down upon his knees to give God thanks for his miraculous restauration by the intercession of his holy patron and then refreshed himself with eating some thing whereas he had not been able for many dayes before to swallow so much as a drop of water That very night he writ the whole relation of what had pass't with him and the blessed Saint with his own hand said mass in the Church the next morning and that very day for many hours together was obliged to be present at the juridicall examination of the fact before the Cardinall Archbishop of the place And all this after such extremity of weakness both from his long sickness and almost continuall fits of Convulsion without the least difficulty or decay of spirits Not long after having first assisted the Lady his mother in her last sickness he prepared himself for the performance of the vow he had made during the time of his danger and which the blessed Saint who appeared to him caused him to renew in his presence of dedicating himself to the assistance of poor soules in the Indies where as now at the time of his cure foretold him by the H. Saint he some few years after suffer'd martyrdome for the faith of Christ which

very unsuccessfull yet these were cured setledly and permanently and which was most to be wondred at suddenly And that by such meanes as could not possibly be imagined to carry any natural proportion with such unexpected effects viz. by earnest prayer by the water of Baptisme by flowers which had only touch't the Bodies of holy men by the sign of the Cross c. You will say perchance that phansie can do much Surely we need not go farr to prove it if you can phansie that such things as these were done by phancy I confess I have hitherto taken fancy rather for a disease itself then a cure for any I have heard of some indeed who have fancied themselves Kings and Queens c. but I never yet heard of any reall Crowns they got by that their fancy unless it were crack't ones in Bedlam I have been told of others who have brought upon themselves very malignant diseases as the small pox c. by apprehension or fancy which I imagin very feasable by an oppression of the spirits weakening the resistance which otherwise might have been made against the infectious Atomes or through consent of parts disordering the humours of the body so as to prepare it for any distemper which the aire was apt to infuse But I never yet read or heard of a Gout Canker or fistula c. which was either got or lost by the force of fancy especially in an instant much less can it enter into any sober mans fancy how a dead man should rise from death to life and perfect health by that which he was immediately before as uncapable off as a stone is of smelling or understanding Certainly if such Philosophy or Divinity rather for there must needs be something more then human in it be once held forth as current our new sect of Fanaticks need not doubt of a large encrease of proselytes Great-bellyed women will fancy strongly for cherries in December and not lose their longing No man will want wealth health or content if fancy can prove so omnipotent But I am apt to take this for I cannot believe it is intended for any other though some of the party make great flourishes upon it for a meer shift or subterfuge or as a dark corner wherein they would faine hide their nakedness that they may not be discovered or rather that they may not be forced to discover him who has put boundaries to Nature universally as well as to the Sea and who has reserved unto himself the power of working such wonders Now as for the Pharisees daemonium habet I beseech those who pretend to Christianity and the use of prayer and some Sacraments at least to reflect that these were not fit meanes or instruments for the sworn enemy of them and the implacable hater of mankind to make use of in order to so much good as the restoring health to the sick and confirming them and all the spectators in the faith of him who took flesh upon him for the destruction of him and all his works This carries high improbability with it if not impossibility 'T was never yet heard he intended so much even temperall good to any of our kind whatever his knowledge may possibly be of Actives and Passives Besides that in some of these passages he must have acted directly against himself putting himself out of possession And we know who tells us upon the like occasion Luke 11. 18. that his kingdome so divided could not stand long which certainly his intention and most malicious endeavours ever were and are to encrease not destroy Again the restoring the dead to life must needs be a thing as remote from his sphere of Activity as it is improper for his malice For thou O Lord art he in whom does reside the power of life and death Sap. 16. 13. Thou art true and sole Authour of life Acts. 3. 15. who wer 't pleased to offer up thine own precious life upon the Cross to free us from the tyranny of this Prince of darkness and purchase for us a life free from all danger of ever dying But this little has been but too much concerning this point in relation to those who own Christianity and have any respect for the great servant of God Saint Augustin who certainly never intended to set forth to the world any thing which either did belong or could with the least shadow of just suspicion be ascribed to or esteemed the work of that inveterate enemy of God and his whole Party But now as to those others who are yet to seek Religion and perchance a God too I could heartily wish to hear an objection of this nature made by them I should then hope they were something on their way towards the discovering something else about him if their eyes or fancies could once permit them to suppose a being of him whom this objection necessarily involves But though an hundred publique Exorcismes a thousand convictions of witchcrafts at publique Assizes and other trials have long since made this evident enough yet I fear they will try an hundred Experiments more before they will own his person what ever kindness they may have for his works Men of these very principles I imagine they were who came not many years since unto a worthy learned Gentleman from whom I had the relation and told him plainly that they were now satisfied that there was no such thing as a devil either on earth or in hell For certainly if there had been they should have heard some newes of him For they had tryed all the tricks charms conjurations c. that ever they could hear or read of in all the books that ever they could light upon and they were not a few which had treated of that black art But the devil of devil could they either see or hear of O Gentlemen replyed this discreet person I thought you had had more witt then to imagin the devil such a foole as to make his appearance at your Summons which no power of yours could oblige him to obey that you might be induced thereby for it seems they had expressed themselves so farr concerning their intentions to believe or be confirmed in your belief of a God I hope you have already found or may I am sure find better motives to ground your belief upon then any that father of lies can or will afford you His discourse certainly was very congruous and such as I presume gave those gentlemen a much more pleasing satisfaction then if their bold curiosity had been complyed with in some false assumed shape which was all could possibly be expected from him who is a pure spirit and who by consequence is of himself and in his own nature no more the object of our corporal eyes then colour is of our ears or sound of our tast But indeed in those circumstances they had little reason whatever Pact or Compact they might pretend to expect even so much from that false seducer when