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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30470	The story of Jetzer, taken out of Dr. G. Burnet's letters with a collection of miracles wrought by popish saints, during their lives, and after their deaths, out of their own authours, for information of all true-hearted Protestants : with a prefatory discourse, declaring the impossibility and folly of such vain impostures.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5927; ESTC R7486	47,653	43

the Cross he turned salt Water into fresh in several Vessels at Sea. Having dipped a brazen Crucifix which he wore about his Neck into the Sea to appease a Tempest and by accident lost it walking the next day upon the shoar he espied a Sea-Crab miraculously bringing him his Crucifix in his claws which having delivered it suddenly returned back into the Sea from whence it came He ended his life at Sancion near China in the year 1552. famous for many Miracles His Body was found entire long after his death howbeit it was neither bowelled nor balmed but buried in Quick-lime and it appeared many months after its decease lively full of juce and fresh colour soft and tractable sending forth an admirable sweet savour and many times Bleeding for which he was honoured and reputed a Saint immediately after his death It appeareth by the Process of his Canonization that many dead Bodies were raised by him after his death that many Lamps burned before his Body with Water onely put into them as clearly as if they had been onely filled with Oil which being oftentimes extinguished took fire again of themselves without humane help that divers were cured by him or by his Relicks or Pictures of Leprosie Palsie and other incurable diseases Saint Philip Nerius preserved his Virginity untouched and he discerned in chaste persons the perfume of Chastity and in others the rankness and stench of Unchastity He arrived to the Knowledge of many things concealed from him such as are the most intimate Secrets of mens Hearts He restored one dead Man to life in his life time another after his own decease He was seen raised from the ground in the time of his Masses Miracles of some others taken out of their Lives POpe Iohn when he came to Corinth a Gentleman lent unto him a Horse whereon his Wife used often to ride and when the Horse was sent back he could never abide that the Woman should come on his back so that it seemed that Beast which had carried the greatest Man of Dignity and Authority in the World disdained to be checked and ruled by a Woman the Gentleman marking it and holding it for a very strange thing as it was indeed sent the Horse tobe given unto the Pope Pag. 147. A Ship wherein were three hundred persons being in a Storm and in danger to be cast away they recommended themselves to St. Iuvenal and they saw him walk on the waves of the Sea and the Tempest ceased See his Life p. 60. St. Anthony was a corpulent man but the Devil displeased with his good life molested him and one night would have strangled him and had already set his Hands to his Throat so that he was in danger of death but recommending himself to the glorious Virgin and saying the Hymn O Gloriosa Domina the Devil left him and vanished away See his Life p. 193. St. Anthony had the gift of Tongues with a pleasant clear and ringing Voice and though there was at his Sermons many Thousand persons of different Languages yet they all understood him As at Rome where the People of sundry Nations listening unto him and he preaching in the Italian Tongue yet they all understood him Preaching one time in France near Bruges in the Field because of the multitude of People it was Summer and whilst he preached it began to Thunder and Lighten grievously wherefore the People doubting to be throughly wet began to haste away to shelter St. Anthony bid them be quiet for they should not be wet all the People gave credit to his words and none stirred out of his place then it began to rain very much throughout all the Countrey but upon the People that heard his Sermon there fell not one Drop It hapned in the same Province in France that a devout Woman was desirous to go to the Sermon of St. Anthony but her Husband would not suffer her because she was sickly she went up unto the top of her House looking toward the place where he preached and though she was two Miles off yet she heard the words of the Preacher as if she had been hard by Of this the Husband of the good Woman was witness who calling her and she answering that she stayed there to hear the Sermon he scoffed and derided at her words and with some pain he went up to the place where his Wife was and he also heard the words as plain as if he had been hard by One time St. Anthony preaching he saw a Traveller approach unto a noble Lady which was at the Sermon and speak unto her the Saint seeing her much troubled and change her countenance bid her as he stood in the Pulpit not to believe that false Messenger who brought her news that her Son was dead for it was a lye without doubt and said withall that he that told it her was the Devil The wicked Fiend would by this Lye have disturbed the Sermon but seeing himself discovered he vanished away in all their sights St. Anthony being in Padua it was revealed to him that his Father was in danger of death at Lisbon being accused of Man-slaughter whereof he was innocent wherefore he asked leave of his Guardian and having obtained it he was carried in one Night onely by an Angel from Padua unto Lisbon Being come thither he spoke with his Father and brought to pass that the Judges caused the dead Body to be brought before him St. Anthony before much people asked him if his Father had killed him the dead Body spake and said No and that he was falsly accused thereof The Judge having seen the strange Miracle set free the Father of St. Anthony who remained in his company all night and the next day he was carried back from Lisbon unto Padua as he had been brought thither One time St. Anthony Preaching at the Funerals of a rich man and among other things discoursed upon these words Where thy treasure is there is thy heart to confirm these words the Father said that the former words be true it is evident in this Rich man who was covetous for his Heart was to be found in his Chest where his Money lieth forthwith some went and opened it and there they found the Heart of the covetous man indeed as fresh as if it had been taken out of the Breast of a Man. It happened often at the end of the Sermons of St. Anthony that the People departed with such desire to be confessed that the Confessours of his Order and of the other Orders also were not sufficient to satisfie them He also heard Confessions among others he also heard the Confession of a Paduan who told him that he had kicked his Mother St. Anthony reproved him sharply and told him that the Foot that had struck his Mother was worthy to be cut off The words of St. Anthony were of such force in the mind of him that was confessed that when he came home he himself cut off the same

place where there was on our left hand a Valley of a vast depth and breadth and the length of it seemed infinite one side of this Valley was terrible with its burning flames and the other no less intolerable for the cold blasts hail and snow driving through it and both these places were full of mens Souls which seemed to be forcibly tossed from one side to the other for those which were in the fire not being able to endure its scorching leaped into the horrible cold and not finding ease there they leaped back into the unquenchable flames Having observed an infinite number of deformed souls thus tormented with an interchangeable vicissitude of tortures without any respite of ease I began to think that this place was surely Hell of whose intolerable torments I had oft heard Preachers speak But my Conductor who went before me answered these my thoughts saying Do not entertain such an imagination for this is not Hell as thou thinkest But when he saw me affrighted with so horrible a spectacle he conducted me leisurely somewhat farther where I saw all places round about me become obscure and at length filled with utter darkness Into which when we were entred the darkness was so thick that I could see nothing but the shape and vestment of my Conductor And as we went on farther in this shady darkness on a sudden there appeared before us frequent globes of hideous flames ascending out of a deep pit and again falling down into it When I was come thither presently my Guide vanished out of sight leaving me alone in the midst of this darkness and horrid spectacle But when the said Globes of Fire without any intermission mounted up and again fell down I perceive that they were full of humane Souls which like sparks of fire carried up by the smoak were sometimes cast upward and then drawn back by the vapours of fire Moreover an unexpressibly noisome stink belched out by those vapours filled all the dark spaces round about As I was thus standing still in a terrible fright being uncertain what to doe whither to go and what would be the end of all this I heard behind my back a most horrible noise as of persons wailing in unutterable misery and also at the same time I heard others loudly and scornfully laughing as the rude vulgar people are wont to do when they insult over their captive enemies When this noise came nearer to me I perceived a troup of wicked Spirits haling into the midst of that darkness the Souls of men which woefully cryed out whilst the others burst forth into laughters And among these Souls I could distinctly see one that was shaved like an Ecclesiastical person another was a Lay-man and a third was a Woman These unhappy Souls thus haled along by those spitefully malitious Spirits at length were plunged into the midst of that burning pit Into which after they were descended a good way I could no longer distinctly hear the wailing of Men and laughing of Devils but only had in mine ears remaining a confused promiscuous sound In the mean time certain obscure Spirits ascended out of that fire-vomiting pit which approached me on all sides and with flaming eyes and stinking fire issuing out of their mouths and nostrils vexed me grievously Moreover with fiery pincers which they held in their hands they threatened to catch me but for all that though they frighted me they had not the boldness to touch me Being thus on all sides encompassed with darkness and enemies I turned my eyes every way to see if there were any one to deliver me At last there appeared by the way which I had passed something that shone like a Star which increasing and approaching nearer and nearer as soon as it came to me all those hatefull Spirits which had endeavoured with their fiery pincers to lay hold on me were dispersed and fled Now he whose coming drove away these Spirits was the same who at first had been my Conductor who presently after turning his steps more southerly toward the East led me out of that darkness into a clear and lightsome air in which after we had walked a while I saw before us a mighty Wall of the length and highth whereof every way I could see no end I began then to marvel to what purpose we should go to that Wall in which I could discover neither door window nor any other passage but being come to it presently I know not by what means we found our selves on the top of it And there appeared to me a most large pleasant Field so replenished with all sorts of odoriferous Flowres that the sweet fragrancy of them immediately took away all the former stench of the dark fiery fornace and so great was the light there on all sides that it far exceeded the brightness of mid-day Moreover there were in that Field innumerable assemblies of men in pure white garments all rejoycing and singing Now as he led me among these happy Choires I began to think that this might be the Kingdom of Heaven which I had oft heard preached of but he again answered to my thought No this is not Heaven as thou supposest And as we passed on in our progress I saw before mine eyes a far greater and more pleasant Light than we had seen before and in that Light I heard most sweet melody of persons joyfully singing and so wonderfull a fragrancy of a most sweet odour issued from thence that the former sweetness which before seemed excessive to me now I very meanly esteemed as likewise the former Light compared with this appeared almost obscure Now when I was in a hopefull expectation that we should enter into this blessed place my Guide made a stop and presently turning his steps he led me back again the way that he had come And when in our return we were come to the joyfull mansions of those Inhabitants clothed in white garments he said to me Dost thou know what these things are which thou hast seen I answered No. He replied That Valley which thou sawest so terrible by the scorching flames and horrible frosts is the place in which those souls are to be tried and afflicted which having delayed to confess and amend their sins at the very point of death retire for safety to repentance and so depart out of the body These because even in the last moment of their lives they confessed and were contrite for their sins they shall at least in the day of Iudgment come to the Kingdom of Heaven and many of them before that day are eased and delivered by the Prayers Fasting and Alms of the Living and especially by the celebrating the most holy Sacrifice Moreover that flame-vomiting and stinking pit which thou sawest is the very Mouth of Hell into which whosoever once falls he shall never come out of it for all eternity As for this pleasant flowry field here before thine eyes in which thou seest such multitudes of youth making