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A58916	A sermon preach'd in the chappel of His Excellency the Spanish embassador on the second Sunday of Advent, December 4. 1687. On which was solemniz'd the Feast of St. Francis Xaverius, of the Society of Jesus, apostle of the Indies and Kingdom of Japan. By the R.F. Lewis Sabran of the same Society. Permissu superiorum.	Sabran, Lewis, 1652-1732.	1687 (1687)	Wing S221A; ESTC R219047	32,337	38

possessing and guiding our Hearts said therefore by Christ to be c Regnum Dei intra nos est within us d Regnum Dei vim patitur violenti rapiunt illud suffers violence and those only attain to it who use such force that who loves his Soul will lose it and who hates his Soul seemingly by a severe and hard usage will preserve it to Eternal Life and esteemed those happy with S. Augustin e Si male amantris tunc odisti si bene oderis tunc amasti felices qui custodiunt odiendo perdant amanda Aug. Tract 51. in Joan. who support by that holy hatred what by an indulging love they had destroyed he knew that such Mortifications serve to stop those violent Inclinations which bear away our Souls from all attention to our Spiritual and Eternal Concerns riveting them as it were in Temporal and Sensual ones that such Affections being by those exterior checks driven back into our Hearts increase mightily the strength of a Soul moving with united Forces towards God. Therefore in imitation of Gods holy Servants with a S. Paul f Perimat amittar usum ejus scilicet perversum quo inclinatur temporalibus ut aeterna non quaerat De Doct. Chr. l. 3. c. 16. he chastized his Body with frequent bloody Disciplines with St. Benedict he tore his Flesh with Brambles and Thorny Rods g Per cutis vulnera eduxit à corpore vulnus mentis quia voluptatem traxit in dolorem G. G. l. Dial. c. 2. by those wounds of his Body applying a Salve to those of his Mind and driving away dangerous Pleasures by Pains With holy Judith and vertuous Anna he covered himself with a rude Hair Shirt and passed his Life in long continued Watching and Praying with Gregory Nazianzen he lay on the bare Ground or Cables or when most at ease on a Matt. 'T was by the same Principle he acted when aplying his Mouth to the purulent Ulcers of the Sick he attended he sucked the filthy Matter out of them Led away by the same he refused passing near the Castle of Xavier to see his loving Mother before he begun his Mission to a new World. And our Blessed Lord confirmed by a continued Miracle how acceptable the Sufferings and Toils of Xaverius were for a large Crucifix to be yet seen in the said Castle the Side Arms and Feet remaining yet covered with a Crust of Blood did from those Wounds yield abundance of it whenever Xaverius was in imminent Dangers or extraordinary Toils in the Indies That Year the Saint died it issued every Friday to that which fell on the Second of December An. 1552. the Forty sixth of his the last Day of his Life on Earth and the first of his Happiness in Heaven But if Xaverius during the Course of his Missions to the end of that of his Life was ever attended by those singular Graces from Heaven which authorised so many different Nations to give him the Title of Apostle God by a singular Providence equally glorifying himself in this Saint after his Death hath added such an unquestionable Proof of his Mission that no false Prophet nor Impostor was ever followed beyond Life by any shadow of it Both Worlds know the frequent Miracles wrought the innumerable Blessings obtained through his Intercession from Heaven His Body left on Earth entire after it had been buried near three Months in quick Lime and after at Malaca above five more in dampish Earth bleeding afresh several Years after when hurt in the Foot ever yielding a sweet Perfume is a sufficient Instance how glorious in the sight of God his Soul is in Heaven If Elizaeus's his Bones were said in holy Writ to Prophetize after Death by reason of the Miracle wrought at their touching a dead Corps to which Life was restored may I not say that in Boubours To. 2. V. X. Xaverius's dead Body still dwells an Apostle so great Prodigies having ever waited on it A raging Plague ceased suddenly at Malaca when it was received there Rocks split and divided themselves to make way for the Ship it was conveyed in All the Sick who saw it when brought to Goa received their Health at that instant And ever since this Apostle hath favored with miraculous Graces obtained by his Intercession all Nations in the old and his new World which have brought even Mahometans Jews and Infidels to his Sepulchre to view that miraculous Body of a more miraculous Soul which must force all that shall stand to that most impartial Trial which our most Blessed Lord recommends to us By their Fruits you shall know them to own Ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos Xaverius an Apostle most highly favored by Almighty God with most unquestionable Miracles and equally prodigious Virtues You are then still great Saint you are to this Age to our Kingdom an Apostle the Miracles you wrought when on Earth and obtained since still Preach the truth of that Catholic Religion which you Planted in so many Kingdoms We are all forced to use those words to you which Nicodemus spoke to our Blessed Lord when he owned him as yet but a Prophet Scimus Rabbi scimus quia à Deo venisti Magister Joan. 3. We know God sent you to Preach and Teach for no one can do those Wonders which you work if God be not with him Obtain great Saint obtain for this Nation a due Acknowledgment of this Truth a pious Assent to it This Kingdom hath a particular Title to your Protection since the Alms which your holy Father St. Ignatius gathered here enabled him to win himself into your Acquaintance and Favor and so to work under God your total Conversion to a pious Life One Favor more then a Neighboring Kingdom that obtained the like through your Intercession minds me to crave through your Merits by the joynt Prayers of this pious Assembly Marguerit of Austria after twenty years Barrenness obtained from Heaven a Son who sits now on the Throne of France and she ever owned that you were the Saint by whose Intercession she sought chiefly that great Blessing for her and her Kingdom These three Kingdoms expect a like Happiness from our Most Gracious and Pious Queen Permit not great Saint that your devout Clients be disappointed in their Expectation of a Prince May we owe to your Intercession so great a Blessing a Prince who may equal in Learning the great Alfred in Piety St. Edward in Prowess the Third and First of that Name in Victories Henry the Fifth the Seventh in Wisdom that is in a word who may inherit soon his Royal Father's Virtues and late his Throne Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam FINIS

and alter † b Opera quae ego facio ipse faciet majora horum saciet the Elements to cure all Diseases to be obey'd by the mutest Fishes and wildest Beasts to dive into Human Hearts and Thoughts to break even the Bonds of Death and restore to Life Add to these the Gift of Tongues and that of Prophesie All these Graces St. Xaverius possest in a large measure and the Miracles he wrought are in their credibility as unquestionable as those we ground Christianity upon To instance in some few but wrought in such circumstances as remove all doubt A great Miracle it was when after three years drouth the Heavens at the moment foretold by Elias gathered into Clouds these yielded to his first request abundant 3 Reg. 18. Rain But was it a lesser Wonder or less Illustrious when St. Xaverius in the Island of Vlata the King whereof with his Bartoli Afia whole People were ready to yield up their Liberty and Life to their Enemies Chains or Swords who held them besieged and by turning the Course of those Waters which relieved their Town had already almost killed them with drouth when Xaverius I say promised those Mahometans and Idolaters a supply of Water from Heaven and drew it by his first Prayers in such abundance as forced their Enemies to raise the Siege by which Miracle he converted with which Waters he baptized them Let us reverence the Prophet Elizeus who turned bitter Waters 4 Reg. 4. into sweet to refresh the Children of the Prophets but let it not appear less prodigious in Xaverius to relieve several times in a greater distress Seamen and Passengers changing by his Blessing salt Water into fresh whil'st he broke by his Commands Tursell Vit. Xav. the most swelling Billows still'd the most stormy Winds The Air Fire Earth obey'd his voice as readily as the Water when in the Island of Mero the one gathered into Clouds these were torn with Thunder and Lightning followed by most terrifying Earthquakes to strike fear into the more unmovable and deaf hearts of the most savage and barbarous Inhabitants To cure the Sick was the Power by which our blessed Lord first and chiefly enabled his Apostles to prove they were sent by God whoever had it in a fuller proportion than Xaverius Behold him in the City of Pasim surrounded by Three Thousand Idolaters all strucken with the Plague who by his first Blessing after a fervent Prayer were all suddenly cur'd by his second after a sufficient Instruction baptiz'd Most remarkable was 4 Reg. 5. the Cure of the Leprous Syrian General Naaman who obeying the Orders which the Prophet sent him by his Servant Giezi washing himself seven times in the Waters of Jordan was cleansed and perfectly cured The hand of God appeared not less evidently at Xaverius's request when sent for in Japan by an Ulcerous Lazarus of Noble Birth unwilling to break off his Catechism he commissioned his Companion to go and cure him by forming on him the holy sign of the Cross But with what Bartoli V. Xav. lustre did this unlimited Power appear at Malaca when after he had walked many nights thro' the Streets of that equally Rich and Sinful City warning all with the ringing of a Bell and with a loud Voice to pray for those who most unhappily perserved in Mortal Sin finding at last he had but few to joyn in Prayers with him that he might stir in those insensible Sinners dull to all the threats of the Justice of God some sense of his Mercy he caused all the Sick to be brought forth and at once healed them all at the sight whereof a Rabbi and Prince of the Jewish Synagogue numerous in that City was converted The Fishes of the Sea pay'd that Obedience they ow'd to our Blessed Lord when after the useless endeavors of a toilsom Joan. 21. 3. Night they sill'd the Nets of the three obedient Fishermen the same blessed Lord honor'd his Servant Xaverius with a more illustrious Miracle when in the Japan-Sea of Cangaxima at his Prayer by his Lord's Power not only the Nets and Boats of some Idolatrous Fishermen were filled but that very Sea by a Miracle continued to this day was stored with abundance of Fish having till then been very barren Did Jesus our God shew more patently his Divine Power than in casting on the ground with two words Ego sum I am He that wicked Band which came to lay Hands on his Sacred Humanity in the Garden of Getzemani Yet to verifie his own Promise he wrought a greater wonder by Xaverius when the Saint to protect the newly-converted Christians of Travancor met undauntedly a fierce Army of the most Warlike and Cruel Nation of the Indians Joan. 18. 6. the Badages and with these words I forbid you in the Name of the Living God to advance one step further Moreover I T●rsel V. Xav. order you to go back first fix'd them all by fear then put them to flight being on that occasion first stiled the Great Father and all the Subjects of the great King of Travancor being by Proclamation commanded to pay to this Saint the same Obedience which they owed to their Sovereign That Power seems to be the most boundless which is heard even by those who lie so low Proc. Canoniz so fast asleep in their Graves to which even Death it self is not deaf Never did God more fully communicate this Power than to Xaverius five and twenty stood on Record to whom he restored Life To an Arabian Mahometan he restored his Son alive the fourth day after he had been drowned falling from off a Ship on full Sails In the City of Mutan he copy'd the Miracle Luca 7. 11. wrought by Christ at Naim in the sight of the whole Town which mournfully followed the Corps of their chiefest Burgess's Son in Memory whereof a lofty Cross was erected on the place At Travancor he moved that other Nineve equally sinful but more deaf to her Prophet's Summons to ask what Miracle they pleased for proof of his Mission then at their instance caused a Body bury'd the day before to be digg'd up view'd by them owned even by its insupportable stench to be half corrupted and rendred it its Soul. He opened another Grave at Malaca the fourth day after it had receiv'd the dead Son of a pious Matron and restored him alive to his comfortless Mother What shall I say of that miraculous Gift of Tongues That it was which worked the Conversion of the greater part of those three thousand which St. Peter added to the Flock of Christ at his first Sermon Actor 2. 6. This Grace appeared most frequently given to Xaverius In a Sea-Voyage to Amboyna he was at once understood by the Portugezes and Indians of most different Nations and Languages which moved all these to ask Baptism But much more unusual and no where else that I remember recorded in Sacred History