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A67100	A discourse of miracles wrought in the Roman Catholick Church, or, A full refutation of Dr. Stillingfleets unjust exceptions against miracles together with a large discovery of the Doctors unexcusable frauds, manifest in his many false, perverted, and impertinent quotations / by E.W.	E. W. (Edward Worsley), 1605-1676.	1676 (1676)	Wing W3614; ESTC R16804	246,745	416

forgery in Miracles and so do I They moreover tax some Writers off Errours in recounting the Gests of Saints and I highly applaud them when they speak Truth and prove it yet all are far from denying true Miracles to have been wrought in the Roman Catholick Church wherein lies the whole Debate betwixt the Dr and me Observe I beseech you The Dr makes à great Account of one Testimony produced out of Luke D'Achery who set forth the Lucas d'Achery lib. 1. c. 1. 2. 3. de pignoribus Sanctorum Paris print 1651. works of Venerable Guibertus Abbot of Novigento where some things thought by the Vulgar great matters though meer Illusions are much reproved For an Instance A Boy belonging to à Souldier chanced to dye on good Friday the People because he dyed that day made resort to his Tomb offered wax candles and other little Donaries as Testimonies of their Devotion Some feigned themselves deaf others lame and the Abbot of that place willing enough to have men think that Miracles were wrought there gave encouragement to à beliefe of these Fopperies Two or three Stories of the like nature Achery relates out of venerable Guibert Immagin all be faithfully told And ask as I did above whether this Consequence be tolerable False Miracles have passed among the Vulgar for true ones Ergo never true Miracles were wrought in the Church I Ask again whether this Argument be not à clear conviction ad hominem D'r Still believes the venerable Abbot of Novigent in the Relation he gives of feigned Miracles which some by abuse judged true Ergo if we plead by the Abbots Authority Dr Still is obliged to believe him when he plainly set's down and own 's true Miracles to have been wrought But most An Argument ad hominem against the Dr. evidently the Abbot confesses à hundred times over that God has done innumerable great Miracles in the Church Therefore if he deserves credit in his Relation of Cheats why should he lose it in the other part of his History 5. Now to point at all the true Miracles D'Achery Lib. de Laude B. virg c. 10. 11. à pag. 302. owned by this Abbot would be à long Task Two or three set down in D'Achery whereof one most prodigious wrought upon à woman called Theodeberta by the assistance of the blessed Mother of God may give Satisfaction to every Reader In à word this Theodeberta condemned to Dy for having Slain à young man that solicited her to Lewdnes after earnest Prayer made to the blessed Virgin humbly confessed her fault and vpon her Publick confession was to be burned in à great Pile of wood There tied to à Stake halfe naked A Stupendious Miracle seen by many Ey-witnesses the wood wholly consumed the bands also wherewith the was bound burnt to Ashes Theodeberta stood still in the middle of the Flame without any hurt at all Her Enemies seing this furiously heaped more wood upon her set that on fire and barbarously struck the poor Penitent with their long Poles but all would not do not so much as one hair of her head nor the Linnen-wear she had on much less any part of her Body received Dammage This Miracle recounted by Guibert in the place now cited was seen and attested by innumerable Ey-witnesses What saies our Dr must the Abbot be believed when he Tell 's us of Cheats and lose all credit while he recount's true and undoubted Miracles Had the Dr dealt ingenuously he should have Said Abbot Guibert 't is true speaks of many Impostures practized in that Age But withall own 's unquestionable Miracles This latter Mr Dr fraudulently omit's and therefore notoriously trangresses against sincerity in setting down one halfe of à Story without the other 6. What followes in the Dr to his Page 610. is such flight stuff as you have heard little worth notice So is that too often babbled out Flaw imputed to Baronius who it seem's mistook the Signification of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore is mercilesly handled though the Cardinal corrected the Errour before Mr Still was borne Such trash as this out of wearisomnes I passe by and will examin other Quotations where you shall see far greater flawes on the Dr's part than the mistake of à Greek word comes to Of Dr Stillingfleets Flawes in his false and faulty citing Tostatus Roffensis Didacus Stella and Iosephus Acosta 7. Our Dr first Quotes Alphonsus Tostatus Tostat in c. 9 Levit. cited by the Dr. the learned Bishop of Avila and so unworthily pervert's his whole Sence that I am scandalized at the Proceeding Tostatus demand's why God in the consecration of Aaron the first high Priest sent fire from Heaven to consume his Sacrifice And Answer 's the Miracle was not done principally for Aaron but to testify how the Sacrifice of any Priest became acceptable to Almighty God And therefore saith Tostatus there appeared no necessity of having the same Miracle renewed at the consecration of other Priests In like manner add's this Bishop at the beginning of the Primitive Church clear Signs appeared to those who were Observe the Miracles whereof Tostatus speaks baptized and converted to Christ The Holy Ghost Visibly fell upon them in the forme of à Dove as we read in the Acts of the Apostles These words which explain the whole drift of Tostatus our Dr fraudulently omit's But now saith he Such Miracles and Mark the Expression are not wrought upon the converted neither doth the Holy Ghost descend Visibly on the baptized as he then did Afterwards Hee gives the reason why these great Miracles were necessary at the beginning of Christianity Because the Mysteries of Faith are not Demonstrable and therefore when the Gospel was first preached Fuerunt ista necessaria those visible great Signs were necessary to introduce it but now being established there ought not to be any such Miracles Thus most faithfully Tostatus true Doctrin laid forth with the Dr's jugling Tostatus if you doubt turn to the Place cited and believe your own Eyes That done you may justly admire the jugling and too open fraud of this Dr who forsooth because Tostatus Saies and truly that those Visible Signs of the Holy Ghost descending upon the converted newly baptized are not seen in this Age will needs thence infer that he Denies all other Miracles Is this either Conscience or any consequence God showes no more some kind of Miracles Ergo he works none at all May not I truly assert that God in the latter Ages of the Church never wrought so many prodigious wonders at once as he did at our Saviours Sacred Passion when the Sun was darkned the Rocks were split the Dead came out of their Graves c. Can any hence inferr That I therefore Deny all other Miracles wrought at Loreto at Compostella and Sichem Certainly No. Because though I grant not such admirable Wonders ever to have happened since our Saviours death I may yet