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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 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 LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Randal Taylor 1689. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER READER THE grand design of this Collection of Popish Miracles i●●o inform thee of the Absurdities and Wickedness of the Church of Rome in compelling her Members to believe such ridiculous Stories as are here related out of Popish Authours set out and own'd by their Church and some of them very lately published to the World by Mr. Cressy in his Church-History Printed 1668. who has raked together out of Bede Capgrave and others such stuff as I am sure must needs fill thee with admiration As for Ignatius the Character given of him in his Life denotes him to be little better than a lunatick Person for pag. 146. this is related of him But that he had regard to the good of his neighbour for which it was necessary for him to uphold himself and his authority he would have walked the streets half naked in a contemptible manner that so he might have been held and reputed a Mad-man And pag. 80. we have an account of the Devil 's appearing to him endeavouring to fright and distract him in his Prayers and was often with a little stick chased away by him And pag. 48. we have this Vision At such time as he composed the Constitutions of his Society having one day consecrated the Holy Host and offered to Almighty God the Rules of his Society God the Father appeared most gratiously unto him insinuating by some mystical signification that it would be a thing pleasing to his Divine Majesty that the Mother of God should offer up her Prayers unto Him for him whereupon the Blessed Virgin suddenly appeared recommending St. Ignatius to the Eternal Father and demonstrating that her own flesh was there present in the Eucharist in the flesh of her Son. At one time we have account that both Father and Son appeared to him and at another the Holy Spirit And many such extravagant passages which are more probable to be the Frenzies of a Mad-man than the Visions of a Saint For God says Exod 33. 20. There shall no man see me and live But it is in vain to bring Scripture against those that both deny the Scriptures to be the Iudge of Controversie and likewise make it their business to derogate from it In a Spanish Catechism entituled Caton Christiano composed by Geronimo de Rosales a Jesuit and Printed at Sevil 1670. this plainly appears for instead of citing Scripture to confirm the Doctrins of the Roman Church he brings in forged Miracles for Examples As to instance only in one To prove the lawfulness of praying to the Virgin Mary he tells this wonderfull Story A great Sinner put himself into a Religious Order and being grosly ignorant he was not able to learn the Christian Doctrin no not so much as the Ave Maria throughout but only these words Hail Mary full of Grace which he repeated many times This man died and afterwards there grew on his Grave a very handsome Tree on whose Leaves were these words written Hail Mary full of Grace The Miracle was divulged the Bishop came and caused the Tree to be digg'd up and they found that the Root of this Tree came out of the Man's Mouth This is their way of proving their Doctrins as may be seen throughout this Catechism That most of these Miracles were invented by the Romish Priests and Monks to make the ignorant Laity have a more venerable esteem for them than which nothing has more contributed thereto and to distribute their Riches amonst them for Pardons Masses for freeing their Souls from Purgatory c. needs no other proof than the impossibility and impertinency of the things related and the Doctrins they maintain viz. Invocation of Saints Worshipping of Images c. which are quite contrary to the revealed Will of God and the Practice of the Holy Apostles and therefore if some things of this nature have been miraculously acted it is not to be attributed to our most holy God since it tends to the violating his Commands by setting up ne● Doctrins contradictory thereto but rather to the subtilty and power of the Devil who in all Ages has made it his business to seduce Men to the most abominable Sin of Idolatry and for that end did work many Miracles in the Temples of the Heathen so that it is no new thing for him to work Miracles when it is to gain himself Proselytes and that the Church of Rome has been so far deluded by him as to break the Second Commandment in giving Divine Worship to Images is learnedly proved by Dr. Moore Dr. Stillingfleet and others in their Books of the Idolatry of that Church By this they may see what danger they are in whilst they communicate with a Church that imposes such not orious Lies on her Members to support her false Doctrins God give them grace to see their Errours that so they may withdraw themselves from that Idolatrous Church and cast anchor in the true Protestant grounded on Scripture and the Practice of the Primitive Christians which is the hearty Desire of the Publisher MIRACLES Wrought by POPISH SAINTS ABOUT the beginning of the 15th Century a Franciscan happened to preach in Francfort and one Wigand a Dominican coming into the Church the Cordelier seeing him broke out into exclamations praising God that he was not of an Order that prophaned the Virgin or that poysoned Princes in the Sacrament for a Dominican had poysoned the Emperour Henry the VII with the Sacrament Wigand being extremely provoked with this bloudy reproach gave him the Lye upon which a dispute arose which ended in a tumult that had almost cost the Dominican his life yet he got away The whole Order resolved to take their revenge and in a Chapter held at Vimpsen in the year 1504. they contrived a method for supporting the credit of their Order which was much sunk in the opinion of the people and for bearing down the reputation of the Franciscans Four of the juncto undertook to manage the design for they said since the people were so much disposed to believe Dreams and Fables they must dream of their side and endeavour to cheat the people as well as the others had done They resolved to make Bern the Scene in which the project should be put in execution for they found the people of Bern at that time apt to swallow any thing and not disposed to make severe enquiries into extraordinary Matters When they had formed their design a fit Tool presented it self for one Ietzer came to take their habit as a Lay-brother who had all the dispositions necessary for the execution of their project For