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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Habit I have the Honor to wear the Society I am an unworthy Member of challenges it a Society he won such a Credit unto and reciprocally so valued that his last Letters from Cochino into Europē own that he miraculously escaped an infinity of Dangers by recommending himself to the Merits and Prayers of the living and deceased Members of it that he could make no end when he spoke of the value of and love for it which he had that he should sooner forget his h Cum oblitus fuero tui societas Jesu oblivioni detur dextera mea Epist l. 2. Ep. 2. Ex Card. Anton Zapata own Right-hand than that tenderness In fine this very Chappel of the Catholic King forbids me to pass by a Saint of the Royal Blood of Navar whose prodigious Success in Apostolical Labors hath gained to Spain the glorious Character which St. Prosper gave to Catholic Rome to wit That i Quidquid non possidet armis Religione tenet Carm. de Ing. what Parts of the World her Sword hath not subdued to her Empire her Piety and Religion hath Conquered for Christ k Maria sancta Mater Domini nostri Jesu Christi obtine pro nobis ab amabili filio tuo ut credamus hanc veritatem sine ullo dubio Epist l. 1. Ep. 5. Sacred Virgin the great Xaverius never begun a Sermon or Catechism without begging by your Intercession the Knowledge and Practice of the Vertue he treated of In Imitation of him I beg of your Divine Son by the Mediation of your Intercession that I may even to the most wilfully blind of Sectaries shew in the Life and miraculous Actions of Xaverius the most evident Proofs of true Religion and Piety to be found only in the Catholic Church and to the Members thereof the Security of their Faith the Sanctity of their Law the Piety of their Practices AVE MARIA OUR Blessed Lord being to give convincing Proofs of his Divinity to St. John's Disciples such as by their Evidence should lay them and the whole Nation of the Jews under a clear Obligation of owning him drew them not from the written Law or any part of Holy Scripture nor from any Character of Divinity or any such self-persuading Truth that appeared in his holy Word tho' uttered from his own Blessed Mouth or from the Holiness of his Principles the Sanctity and Congruity of his whole Doctrin such Marks could be comprehended by few or were the very Points in Debate He took them from plain Matters of Fact exposed to the dullest proportioned to the meanest Capacities for such ought to be the Proofs of a Religion which excluded none from its Profession but opened Heaven equally to all This was the first the grand and certain Motive of Credibility disposing all to reduce their Understandings unto a due humble subjection to Faith The blind see the lame walk the leprous are cleansed the deaf hear the dead are raised to life By which he left to each Man this Argument to frame Where such evident Prodigies are wrought 't is clear that Gods Hand subscribes to the Doctrin in Evidence whereof they are brought But Gods infinite Veracity cannot attest and his equal Bounty cannot admit us to be most credibly persuaded that he does attest an Untruth Therefore all that Christ teaches is true he is then the Son of God since he declares himself to be so In the beginning of his Preaching he had exposed to the Jews the same Motive by which he pretended they were to be convinced of their Obligation of receiving him to wit because a Hunc enim signavit Deus Joan. 6. his Father Sealed his Commission by which he authorised him to Preach Some Ages before the Prophet Isay warned that incredulous Nation that the clear Marks by which they should undoubtedly know this great Prophet should be these self-same b Tunc aperientur oculi caecorum aures surdorum tunc patebunt saltet tanquam Cervus claudus Isa 35. miraculous Cures of their Sick their blind their lame their leprous Which Wonders were so convincing that our Blessed Lord owned to the Jews that altho' they refused to yield to those Motives which he offered them in his Sermons yet they could not without obstinacy refuse c Opera quae Ego facio testimonium perhibent de me illis credite si verbis non vultis Joan 10. a Belief to his Works which could part from no other Hand but that of God. Such was their Blindness yet such also was the Light his Miracles did yield towards the discovery of the Truths which he taught them that he acknowledged they might have found an Excuse for their Insidelity and without sin have refused to submit to him had he not d Si opera non fecissem in illis quae nemo alius fecit peccatum non haberent Joan. 15. 1 Cor. 4. 2 Cor. 12. wrought greater Miracles than any before amongst them to which consequently no other like Miracles could be pretended to be opposed and therefore nothing that might weaken their Divine Authority to which they could not without a heinous sin refuse Obedience and an entire Submission This was the Method used by Christ as the most natural and clear the most capable to conquer Mens proud yet dull Minds and to fasten their unsteddy and wavering Hearts to Faith and Religion His Apostles used the same To instance in one St. Paul challenges a submissive Belief to what he had Preached from the Corinthians because he had proved himself an Apostle not only by his Patience the true Test of Real and Solid Virtue but also by Signs Prodigies and Power And there being some false Apostles who oppos'd him seduc'd from him his Neophytes and valu'd themselves much on their Preaching and Discourses he minds them that the Word of God is not chiefly attested by Words but by Power And indeed as St. Chrysostom observes a Quando novum a liquid fit praecipuum signa Deus facere confuevit praestat qurdam pignora suae potentiae iisqui legem ejus accipiunt Chrys ho. 14. in Mat. when God declares any new thing or orders any of great importance and such is if any a General Reformation in Faith he uses to work Wonders yielding some pledges of his Power to those who receive his Law. b Adjuncta sunt paaedicatoribus miracula ut Fidem verbis daret virtus ostensa Nova facerent qui nova praedicarent Greg. hom 4. in Evang. Ut magnitudinem promissorum probet magnitudo signorum Hier. Matt. 10. Infirmos curate c. He joyned saith St. Gregory Miracles to Preaching that such an appearance of Power should give credit to Words and their Works should be unusual whose Doctrin was new That their great Promises saith St. Hierom should find a fit warrant in equally great Wonders Hence we no sooner read that Christ had chosen Twelve Apostles and had sent them but that we find