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A39735 The life and death of the B. Virgin giving an account of the miracles ascrib'd to her by Romish writers : with the grounds of worship paid to her / by a lay hand. Fleetwood, William, 1656-1723. 1688 (1688) Wing F1247A; ESTC R29843 26,177 44

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should have the confidence to furbish up such ridiculous things as these at this time of day in such an Age as ours I had often heard this Story told by Protestants to shame the Papists but I never thought it would have been produced at this time by a Renowned Jesuit in honour of their Religion and that too in Paris the most frequented City in the whole World. But to put you past all doubting of this Truth F. Crasset tells us that Caesarius says that this very Gascoign was alive in his time 1222. and that nothing was more sure nor better attested than this famous Story And for the credit of Caesarius the same good Father tells us he was of the Order of Cistercians and lived above four hundred years ago and was as Trithemius the Abbot tells us a very Learned and a very Pag. 105. Honest Man and one that stuck to his rule very close You may judge says he of the sincerity and credit of this Man by what he says in his Preface to his own Works God is my Witness cries he that I am not the Inventer of any thing I have reported in my Dialogues And who alive can help believing him after this Protestation Therefore take in short another Story of Caesarius's telling of one Beatrix a Servant in a Convent who being debauch'd by a Priest got out of the Convent and lived in a Bawdy-house fifteen years during all which time the Virgin Mary took her shape and constantly supplied her place so that no body perceiv'd her absence and her Reputation suffered nothing all the while and all this because she had as she was going out prayed to the Virgin and giving her the Keys of the Convent into her hand had said Madam I have served you as devoutly Caesarius l. 7. c. 35. as I possibly could I give you here your Keys again and am able no longer to withstand the temptations of the Flesh This tends to the same end with all the rest namely to let you understand that break God's Commands or do Crass p. 9● whatever you please serve but the Blessed Virgin and all is well Pelbart of Temeswar another of F. Crasset's great Authors Stell Coronae l. 12. ● ● tells us there was a certain Woman that plaid the Whore with a Neighbor's Husband of hers whose Wife finding his roguery out pray'd to the Virgin to confound that wicked Creature that had debauch'd her Husband from her Bed but it was ●ound that this impudent Harlot had still the grace every day to say seven Ave Maria's and therefore the Virgins Image answered the complaining Wife and said She of whom thou speakest offers me Praises that are very agreeable to me and whilst she does so I assure you Mistress I can never hurt her but on the contrary will preserve her from disgrace however I promise you I 'll see and convert her And this is the way to Proselyte to the Virgin those who trample God's Commandments under foot If you would have any more Stories to prove that the Worship of the Virgin separate from that of God is a sure way to Salvation you may find them in great Crasset p. 94. plenty in Father Crasset There you may see the Virgin keeping them that keep not God's Commands and how a Bird having learn'd to cry Ave Maria and being seized on by a Hawk scream'd out but Ave Maria and the ravenous Hawk immediately left her And likewise how the Devil being in the Air and spying a Christian that was not upon his guard came swooping down upon him like a Bird of Prey but as soon as he heard him pronounce and devoutly call upon the Name of Mary he was fain to pull in his horns I meant his talons and be gone There you shall see her taking a great deal of pains to raise from the dead Rogues that had liv'd in nothing else but wickedness died without repentance only to give them leisure to Confess and do some trifling Penances and then again depart in peace It is the same Father Crasset that tells from Surius the History of a Citizen of Rome called Andrew so insufferably debauch'd that he bore no token or mark of Christianity upon him but that he was an Admirer of St. Caesarion Martyr As Andrew lived so he died like a Reprobate without any tokens of Repentance but at the Intercession of Mary and Caesarion he arose from the dead to Confess and do Penance and returned from whence he came Pelbart of Temeswar that never sticks at any thing tells us of a Robber on the High-way that used nevertheless to Fast every Saturday in Honour to the Virgin who at last being caught in the Fact was Beheaded on the spot his Head in falling from his Body cried out thrice Confession Confession Confession upon which they fetch'd a Priest who came and set his Head again upon his Shoulders to whom the Thief reported that as soon as his Head was ●ut off the Devils had seised on his Soul to drag it into Hell but that the Virgin hindred them not permitting the Soul and Body quite to separate till he was Confess'd and that he had obtained this Grace for Fasting every Saturday to her Honour And this serves to support two Articles of Popery the Invocation of the Virgin and the necessity of Confession But if we will not believe Pelbart nor Father Crasset neither will we Hereticks be persuaded that a Rogue rose from the dead In the same place you read how that the Soul of a Soldier kill'd in Fight in the Service of the Emperor Sigismond continued in his Body many years after the Flesh was rotten and worn off The Blessed Virgin not permitting the Soul to part before Confession because he had been all his Life time Her peculiar Servant Another Miracle there is of which Pelbart himself was an Eye-witness A certain wicked Villain fell into the Danube and was under water three days where he heard a Voice say to him Thou deservest well O Wretch to lose thy Life and be Condemn'd for ever for thy Sin but because thou art a Servant to the Virgin Mary thou shalt be delivered from this danger that thou may'st go and be Confessed and up he came though he could not Swim a stroke and came and Confess'd to Pelbart himself who tells you this Story 'T was from the Man his own self says Father Crasset that this Religious Pelbart heard this History and you must either believe this Penitent was an Impostor and Cheat and I pray take heed of wronging such a Pickled Youth or else that Pelbart was a wicked Man and took delight to Page 135. impose upon the belief of the soveraign High Priest of Rome to whom he dedicated his Works and all the Faithful Or else you must believe this Story for a certain truth and consequently that the Virgin does preserve sometimes her Servants from everlasting Damnation after Death And
in the same Page this worthy Jesuit says That Caesarius the Cistercian that lived about 400. years since and made 12. Books of Dialogues upon Miracles and Apparitions in his time sets down many Examples of this nature how Dead men were saved from Damnation by the Virgins means obtaining Grace for them to return to Life again to do some Penance If I would drain those Springs as Father Crasset does of Pelbart Caesarius Bernardin de Bustis Vincentius Bellovicensis St. Antonine of Florence and the rest I could make a monstrous great Volume of these Fables that tend to the establishing the necessity of Worshipping the Blessed Virgin but this small number drawn from Father Crasset is as good as if I had heaped up all together with a great deal of Pains and Trouble For by this we Protestants may see how far we are to trust those Catholick Doctors who would have us believe their Service and Religion has for many years last past been cleansed and purified from all these vain and idle Popular Superstitions When Father Crasset a famous Jesuit though Monsieur Arnaud call him the Wretched Jesuit Crasset A Jesuit I say in the City of Paris where Popery is most refin'd in the Face of Monsieur the Bishop of Meaux and other Catholicks averse from the vulgar Superstitions When he I say again renews and revives these Silly and Impertinent Fables with the approbation of his Society his Arch-Bishop and his King. And if the great Man at Rome Of Louis le Grand should in a good Humour think fit to say this Book of Father Crasset is composed with so much Learning in such a Method and with such a Discretion as is proper to instruct the Readers clearly in few words and to extort even from the unwilling such as Monsieur de Meaux and Monsieur Arnaud a confession of the Catholick Faith. In this point If he I say should but say thus much I would fain know-why it would not be as Authentick a Book as the Catholick Exposition of Monsieur de Condom And are we in good earnest secure it never will be so Will a better Friend to the Jesuits never possess that Chair And if there do may he not do as much for such a Book as this of Father Crassets as the present Pope has done for Monsieur de Meaux's And must the Faith of Christ be at such uncertainties This surely is not building on a Rock but on the Sand that every Wave can wash away at pleasure For if every Pope can make an Exposition of the Catholick Faith Authentical And if every one cannot how can any one I do not see but we may have as many several Faiths as there are Casualties and Diseases in the Weekly Bill THE END Books Printed for Tho. Newborough at the Star in St. Paul ' s Church-Yard THE Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant in Three Parts viz. Into I. Turkey II. Persia III. The East-Indies Fol. R. Manlii Commentaria de Rebellione Anglicana ab Anno 1640. usque ad Annum 1685. Pars Prima Octa. A Paraphrase with Notes and a Preface on the Sixth Chapter of St. John shewing that there is neither good Rerson nor sufficient Authority to suppose that the Eucharist is discoursed of in that Chapter much less to infer the Doctrine of Transubstantiation from it Quarto Wholesome Advices from the Blessed Virgin to her Indiscreet Worshippers Written by one of the Roman Communion Humanity and Charity of Christians A Sermon Preached at the Suffolk Feast November 30. 1686. by W. Claget D. D. The Present State of the Controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome