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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

Saint Dunstan c. When the Debate was in the Assembly St. Dunstan was silent and holding down his head he debated in his mind what might be the best course to proceed in this Affair A great silence was observ'd by the whole Assembly every one expecting the Archbishop's answer and resolution when on a sudden an Image of our Lord upon the Cross which was fastened aloft in the Room in the hearing of all that were present spake these words distinctly It must not be it must not be you have ordered things well you shall doe ill to change them This struck a terrour into the whole Assembly and thereupon St. Dunstan said My Brethren what would you have more you have heard the present Affair decided by a Divine Sentence they answered We have heard it And upon this the Monks of Winchester remained secure Cr. p. 883. St Editha Daughter to King Edgar a little before her death built a Church to the honour of St. Dionysius at the Consecration whereof by St. Dunstan he observed how the Virgin frequently with her Thumb made the sign of the Cross upon her Forehead at which being much delighted he said May that Thumb never be corrupted Thirteen months after her death St. Dunstan in a vision of sleep saw St. Dionysius holding the Virgin by the hand who commanded that her memory should be celebrated on earth the Virgin her self likewise admonished him to take up her Body withall telling him that he should find her upper parts her Eyes and Hands all corrupted because in her childish age she had employed them lightly and vainly but her Thumb which she had frequently used in signing her self with the Cross and all her lower parts remained uncorrupted in as much as she had been always free from impurity and gluttony hereupon St. Dunstan went to Wilton and taking up her sacred Relicks found all she had said to be true But Canutus the Danish King who made small account of English Saints was wont to say in jest he could never believe that a King so licentious and cruel as K. Edgar could have a Saint to his Daughter And when Archbishop Ednot defended the sanctity of S. Editha the King being then at Wilton in a passion commanded her Sepulchre to be opened which being done the holy Virgin was seen to sit up with a Veil before her face in a posture as if she intended to assault the King at which he terribly affrighted started back and fell half dead to the ground but coming to himself he ever held the holy Virgin in great veneration and once being endangered by a Tempest at Sea he implored her assistence upon which the Tempest immediately ceased and he came safe to Land. Cr. p. 895. In the year of Grace one 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 Lord's Nativity the Priest named Robert according to custome 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 Choire 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 Arme to draw her from the rest and she not being able to leave them he pulled her Arme from her Body and yet not a drop of Bloud 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 cloths and shoes 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 Colon came to the place and absolved them from their bonds and bringing them before the Altar of St. Magnus he there reconciled them The Priest's Daughter with two others presently gave up the Ghost the rest slept three days 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 Relicks 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 lustre Whereupon the Countess by the Bishop's order laid up the said Relick in a pretious Repository Cr. p. 988. A certain Church being to be consecrated to the honour of Saint Iohn the Evangelist devout King Edward the Confessour attended the Procession thither when upon a sudden a Person in a stranger's habit pressing near the King earnestly begged an Alms of him for St. 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 beautifull 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 King's name was Edward that they came to visit the holy places of our Lord's 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 chearfull countenance bid them follow him conducting them into a most beautifull 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 the 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 a Church to my Name he gave being then disguised in the habit of a Pilgrim tell him withall that the day of his death approaches and that six months hence I will visit him and conduct him after the Lamb who is always 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. An Irish Priest preaching lately at Dublin on these words Take no thought for to morrow what ye shall eat nor what ye shall drink c. brings in the example of the Prophet Daniel Daniel saith he was cast into the Lyons Den in Babylon just then Habakkuk had prepared a Dinner for his Reapers comes an Angel to Habakkuk and tells him Habakkuk This Dinner thou hast prepared for thy Reapers thou must carry to Daniel which is in the Lyons Den in Babylon Lord said Habakkuk I know not Daniel neither do I know where Babylon is whereupon the Angel took up Habakkuk by one single Hair of the Head and carried him to Babylon to Daniel in the Lyons Den. Babylon being three hundred Miles from the place A Priest preaching in a Nunnery in Dublin just after the Birth of the P. of W. chose this Text Knock and it shall be opened unto you He told the Nuns what mighty Miracles were done by knocking Nay saith the Priest by knocking we have got a P. of W. The Nuns fell a laughing the Priest observing it Hold saith he I do not mean such knocking as you mean. Thus have you 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

Foot St. Anthony being advertised thereof caused him to be brought unto him and restored him his Foot again with the sign of the Cross All these Stories that follow are taken out of Cressy's Church-History ST Winwaloc and his Disciples being not content with their Habitation prayed to God that he would direct them to a more convenient one he shewed them a place remote in the Sea but wanting a Ship he renewed his Prayers and having done this he said to his Brethren Be courageous and firm in a strong faith and as you see me lead this Brother by the hand so do every one of you 〈◊〉 his next fellow's hand and follow one another Then invoking the Name of our Lord with his Pastoral Staff he struck the Sea upon which it opened a passage for them so that taking one another by the hand and himself marching in the Front they walked securely over the dry Sands the Waters on both sides standing like Walls Cres. pag. 183. St. Benignus discovered to St. Patrick the Motives of his Journey to a solitary place who exhorted him to pursue his purpose saying Go Brother take only your Staff with you and when you shall be arrived at the place for your repose wheresoever having fixed your Staff in the ground you shall see it flourish and grow green there know you must make your abode St. Benignus being accompanied only with a Youth named Pincius began his Journey through woody and marish places but as soon as he was arrived in an Island where he saw a solitary place he presently fixt his Staff in the ground which without delay wonderfully grew green and brought forth fresh Leaves and to this day the same Tree remains flourishing with green Boughs Yet one incommodity it had that there was no Water near whereupon St. Benignus gave his Staff to young Pincius commanding him to go to a certain place full of Reeds and there striking the ground with his Staff he should without doubt find Water so earnestly desired by them the Child obeyed went to the place and struck the ground three times making three holes in it with the end of his Staff which he had no sooner done but immediately a Fountain gusht forth from whence to this day a Brook is supplied which is good for Fishing and healthfull for many Infirmities Cr. p. 194. St. Piran fed ten Irish Kings and their Armies with three Cows rais'd to life dead Pigs and dead Men. Cr. p. 195. At the Church of St. Almedha one especial thing usually happening on the Solemnity of this Virgin seems to me very remarkable for you may oftentimes see there young Men and Maids sometimes in the Church sometimes in the Church-yard and sometimes whilst they are dancing in an even ground encompassing it to fall down on a sudden to the ground at first they lie quiet as if they were rapt in an Ecstasie but presently after they will leap up as if possessed with a Frenzy and both with their hands and feet before the People they will represent whatsoever servile Works they unlawfully performed upon Feast-days of the Church one will walk as if he were holding the Plough another as if he were driving the Oxen with a Goad and both of them at the time time singing some rude Tune as if to ease their toil one will act the Trade of a Shoe-maker another of a Tanner a third of one that were Spinning Here you may see a Maid busily weaving and expressing all the postures usually in that work After all which being brought with Offerings unto the Altar you would be astonished to see how they would return to their Senses again Cr. p. 217. The manner of St. Kentigern's Birth A certain King of Britarmy who was a Pagan begot of his Wife a very beautifull Daughter she having been a frequent hearer of Sermons became a Christian and though she had not been baptized yet she was addicted to the duties of Ecclesiastical Discipline as much as the fear of incensing her Father would permit she bore so great Devotion to the fruitfull Virginity of the blessed Virgin that mov'd with Womanish presumption she begg'd that she might imitate her in her Conception and Birth At length as she thought she obtained her desire for she found her self with Child Now it is not to be conceived that this happened without the embraces of a man notwithstanding who that man was or in what manner or when this was done she oft protested and with Oaths confirmed it that she was utterly ignorant Her Father perceiving this and not being able by fair speeches or threatnings to wrest from her who was the Father of the Child for she seriously protested that she had never suffered the unlawfull embraces of any man hereupon in a rage he determined to execute upon her the Law established by his Ancestors by which it was enacted That whatsoever young Maid should be with Child by Fornication in her Father's house should be thrown down headlong from the top of an high Mountain and the person corrupting her should lose his head In conformity therefore to this Law the young Woman was placed on the highest point of a Mountain in that Countrey called Dunpelder from thence to be thrown down and torn in pieces She therefore with deep sighs looking up to Heaven implored Mercy After this she was cast down but by the Fall was neither bruised nor received the least harm but sliding down easily and slowly came safe to the bottom The Pagans ascribed this to the Magical Enchantments of Christians therefore they carried her several Miles into the Sea and there left her destitute of all humane help in a small Boat made of Leather without Oars but the Boat was carried to a far distant Haven with great swiftness being arrived there the young Lady went out of the Boat and presently after was brought to Bed of a Son without the assistence of a Midwife The next morning St. Servanus came to the place and seeing the Mother with her Infant he took them into his care and baptized them and called the Mother Thanen and the Child Kentigern Cr. p. 231. St. Iustinian having reproved his Servants for idleness and mispending their time they were enflam'd with fury against him insomuch as rushing upon him they threw him to the ground and most cruelly cut off his Head But in the place where his sacred Head fell to the ground a Fountain of pure water presently flowed by drinking of which in following times many were miraculously restored to Health But Miracles greater than these immediately succeeded his Death for the Body of the Martyr presently rose and taking the Head between the two Armes went down to the Sea shoar and walking thence on the Sea past over to the Port called by his Name and being arrived to the place where a Church is now built to his memory it fell down and was there buried by St. David Cr. p. 234. St. David being enjoined to preach he

I doubt not but my Soul by his intercession and prayers would be absolved from all pains After he had continued a good space a Prisoner to the said Officer those who guarded him observed by his countenance gesture and speeches that he was no countrey-peasant but a person of quality Thereupon the Officer calling him aside privately enquired more diligently who he was withall promising him that if he would simply declare his condition he would not use him any thing the worse He then plainly manifested to him that he was a Servant of the King of the Northumbers Whereupon the Officer replied I did assure my self by the manner of thy speech that thou were not of a base condition and now thou deservest to die in revenge of all my brethren and kinsmen who have been slain in the Battel but because I will not break my promise I will not kill thee As soon therefore as he had recovered health and strength the Officer sold him to a certain man at London called Freson But neither could he be bound by his new Master for after tryall of several sorts of Bands and Chains they became all unloosed When he therefore who had bought him perceived that he could not be restrained by Fetters he gave him permission to redeem himself if he could For commonly after nine of the Clock in the morning the usual time of Masses his Bands were 〈◊〉 Upon this offer the Prisoner was suffered to depart having first given his promise by Oath that he would either send the money agreed on for his Ransome or return and yield himself a Prisoner again He went therefore from London into 〈◊〉 to King Lothere Nephew to the famous Queen Ethelreda by her Sister who likewise had formerly been a Servant to the said Queen and from him the Prisoner received the Money appointed for his Ransome which according to promise he sent to his Master Being thus free after some time he returned to his Countrey and coming to his Brother the Abbat he related to him particularly all the Accidents both good and bad which had befaln him and then perceived that his Chains for the most part had been loosed precisely at the Hours in which Masses had been celebrated for him and moreover that many other commodities and comforts had befaln him from Heaven in his dangers by his Brothers Prayers and the Oblation of the Saving Sacrifice Cr. p. 439. On a certain day St. Cuthbert came to the Village of a certain Count whose Wife at that time lay sick at the point of death the Count himself met him in the way and conducted him into his House and acquainted him with the desperate state of his Wife beseeching him that he would give his benediction to Water for sprinkling her the Bishop assented to the Man's request and Water being brought he blessed it and gave it to a Priest commanding him to sprinkle the sick Lady with it who thereupon entred into her Chamber where she lay like one deprived of sense and life and both sprinkled her face and bed yea withall opening her Mouth distilled a few drops into it the Holy Water had no sooner touched her but O wonderfull though she was utterly ignorant of what had been done she presently recovered a perfect health of Body and Mind and without delay rising up she her self came to doe service to the Bishop being the first of the whole Family which presented to him a Cup of refection Cr. pag. 469. The Divine Disposition being pleased to demonstrate in how great Glory St. Cuthbert lived after his death gave this Testimony Eleven years after his burial his Brother Monks opening his Sepulchre to take up his bones found his body perfectly entire with a lively freshness and all his limbs as flexible as if he had been alive so that he appeared like a person rather asleep than dead moreover all his Vestments were not only undecayed but appeared in their primitive freshness and also with the addition of a wonderfull lustre Cr. p. 473. A Coffin of stone was prepared for entombing the body of King Sebbe but when they endeavour'd to put the body into it they found that it was by a hands breadth too long for the Coffin whereupon paring away as much of the stone at each end as they could they thereby lengthened it about the measure of two fingers breadths yet after all it would not receive the body whereupon finding so great a difficulty to interr him they intended either to seek out a new Coffin or to endeavour by hewing the body to shorten it so much as to make it enter into the Coffin but by a wonderfull accident which could proceed from no less than an Heavenly Power both these designs of theirs were prevented for presently in the sight of the Bishop and Sighard Son to the said King and Monk who together with his brother Seofrid reigned after him a great multitude of others being likewise present the Coffin was found of a convenient length insomuch that there was room enough to lay a Cushion under his head and yet at the feet there remained four fingers breadths beyond the body Cr. p. 486. The wonderfull Story of a Man revived and recounting his Visions A certain Man who had been a good while dead was restored to the life of his body and related many notable things which he had seen This Man was an honest House-keeper who with his Family lived a Religious Life in a Religion of the Northumbers called Incuningum who having been struck with a Disease the same goowing more and more violent upon him it brought him to extremity so that on a certain day towards evening he died but the day following early he came to life and suddenly raising himself up in his bed all those who mournfully watched the body were terribly affrighted and ran away only his Wife whose love to him was excessive though she trembled at the sight staid still by him The Man seeing his Wife bid her be of comfort Fear not said he for I am truly restored to life from death which had seiz'd me and permission is given me to live a while longer among Men but my conversation thereafter must be quite otherwise than formerly it has been Having said this he presently rose and went to an Oratory of that Village where he remained a good while in Prayer Afterward having divided his whole Substance into three Portions one Portion he gave to his Wife a second to his Children and the third he distributed to the Poor Not long after having thus freed himself from all worldly cares he went to the Monastery of Mai●os where having received Tonsure he entred into a Religious Life Now the account which he gave of his Visions was on this manner A certain person brightly shining in his 〈◊〉 and vestments conducted me and we walked together silently as it seemed to me towards the place where the Sun rises in high Summer Thus walking together we came to a

merry and clothed with white raiment this is the place which is the receptacle of such souls as have continued to their death in the exercise of vertue but yet their works have not been of such perfection as to deserve their present admission into the Kingdom of Heaven yet all these in the day of Iudgment shall arrive unto the Vision of our Lord and the joys of his heavenly Kingdom But as for those who in their words works and thoughts have attained to perfection such as soon as they have left the body shall enter into that blessed Kingdom To the confines of which Kingdom that place pertains where thou sawest so great a Light and heardest so sweet Harmony and wast refreshed with so admirably sweet-smelling Odours Thou therefore having seen all these things must presently return to thy Body and again as formerly live among men If then hereafter thou wilt be diligent to examine all thine actions and to observe uprightness and simplicity in thy conversation and speeches thou also after death shalt receive a mansion among these joyfull troups of happy Spirits For I having departed for a time from thee did it to this end that I might see what would in the end become of thee When he had spoken thus to me I had a horrible aversion from returning to my Body being extremely delighted with the sweetness and beauty of that place which I saw and the happy society of the persons living in it Notwithstanding I had not the boldness to make any such request to my Guide And whilst I was busie in these thoughts I know not how I presently perceived that I was again alive among men Cr. p. 500. Saint Decumanus when his Head was cut from his Body the Trunk raising it self up took the Head which it carried from the place where it was slain to a Spring not far off which flowed with a most chrystalline Water in which with the Hands it washed the bloud away which Spring in reverend memory of the Saint is to this day called St. Decumanus's Spring near to which place the Body together with the Head was buried Cr. p. 526. In those days there was in the Territory of Worcester a certain place wholly uncultivated and almost unpassable by reason of Thorns and Briers growing thick there This place formerly called Homme was in succeeding times named Eovesham for the reason which I shall now declare St. Egwin had appointed four Sheepherds to feed their flocks about the said Wood for the sustenance of his Monks Now on a certain day it happened that one of the said Sheepherds named Eoves entring deeply into the midst of the Wood there appeared before him a certain most glorious Virgin attended by two others her Splendour darkened that of the Sun it self and her Beauty incomparably exceeded all worldly features she held in her Hand a Book out of which she with the other two Virgins sung Hymns of praise to God. The poor man dazled with this splendour upon which he durst not fix his eyes stood a while silent and trembling and presently after in great fear retired home and repairing to the Bishop acquainted him with this Vision The Holy Bishop considering the matter advisedly with himself on a certain day after he had fasted and prayed taking three companions with him went toward the place described by the Sheepherd walking all the way bare-foot praying and singing Psalms and commanding his attendents to stop at a distance he himself passed farther into the Wood and being come to the place he fell prostrate on the ground where with many sighs and tears he remained a good space imploring a mercifull regard from our Lord. After which he rose up from Prayer and immediately there appeared to him the three Virgins with the same Majesty and Glory as before among whom she who stood in the midst seemed more tall and resplendant than the other in pure whiteness infinitely excelling Lillies and in freshness Roses and from her proceeded a celestial and inestimable Odour she held in her hand a Book together with a golden Cross casting forth bright beams of light Now whilst he thought within himself that surely this was the Mother of our Lord the said glorious Virgin as it were approving such his inward pious cogitation stretching forth the said Cross gave him a Benediction with it and presently with that farewell disappeared The Holy man with great joy rendring thanks to God for this favour understood thereby that it was God's will that the same place should be consecrated to his Service and dedicated to the Honour of the Blessed Virgin Mother of our Lord. For during his former afflictions and persecutions he had made a Vow that if God would vouchsafe to give a prosperous end to his desires he would build a Church to his Service Hereupon without delay he cleansed the place began the work and shortly brought it to perfection Cr. p. 528. St. Egwin Bishop of Worcester undertook a painfull Pilgrimage to Rome thereby to satisfie for the offences of his People and withall to doe a rigorous Penance for some faults committed in his youth And to render his Pilgrimage more painfull he in the presence of a great multitude bound about his Legs certain Iron Chains and cast the Key which locked them together into the River of Avon publickly protesting that he would never esteem himself secure of the pardon of his sins till either the Key were restored to him or the Chains unloosed by a power supernatural Having with great pain performed his Voyage he at last arrived at Rome where whilst he was performing his Devotions in the Church of St. Peter his Servants going to the River's side to buy provision for their Master they found in a Fish's belly the Key which had formerly locked the Chains about his Legs which being brought to him he in the presence of a great multitude unlocked the said Chains So that he who before was looked upon as a Sinner was afterwards honoured as a Saint Cr. p. 528. In the year 711. when St. Swibert went into a certain Village to celebrate Mass a certain rich Man who had been a Pagan but converted and called Peter conducting a Cart laden with Materials for building a Monastery in the way by the malice of the Devil Peter fell from the Cart under the Wheels and was taken up dead having his Head and other Members grieviously wounded by occasion of which there assembled a great concourse of People when preparation was making for his Funerals St. Swibert came to the place and commanded the Body to be carried to his Cell which being done he with many sighs and tears poured forth his Prayers to restore to life the said Peter who was a Servant of his Monastery then rising up and kissing the Body immediately the dead Man revived and rose up perfectly whole insomuch as there was not left on his Body the least marks of any wounds nor no settling of any bloud Cr. p.