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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

his golden Asse that by taking poyson yet retaining à mans Soul he vvas made an Asse But these Transmutations saith S. Austin are either false or so unusual that no man can believe them Nay Ludovicus Vives in his notes upon this Passage Vivès Plinius lib 8 cites Pliny plainly teaching They are all false and fabulous With far greater reason Therefore may we conclude that Aesculapius his pretended cure wrought upon à beheaded woman S. Aug de Civit l 10 c 27 was à horrible Lye or as I said à Divelish Illusion Non audit ista hominum multitudo saith S. Austin upon another occasion where he rebukes Porphirius for saying that Divels can by Theurgick S. Austin slight's These fopperies of Heathens art purge and free souls from great Misery but as S. Austin add's vvhole multitudes of People believe no such things knovving vvell that our Saviour came to free us from the Divels Tyranny In Christ vve have à merciful Deliverance both in Soul and Body And this is evidently proved by clear Experience For since our Saviours comming Since Christianity was established we hear no more of heads cut off and restored by Necromancy no more of Circe's charmes of Appulius his change into an Asse of stopping the Stars in their course or of any such fopperies which argues all before Spoken of were nothing but vain apprehensions of some few credulous and too easy deluded People I say of some fevv for the wiser sort of Heathens as Pliny cited observes Nay vvhole multitudes believed none of them And one great Blessing hence ensued For after the world had been quite wearied with these Heathenish fooleries and the wisest of men had seen them lie under open contempt The infinite Surmounting Excellency of Christian Religion became glorious got ground every where and with greater ease spread it selfe over all Nations What therefore moved Dr Still to disgrace Christianity How highly doth he undervalue it while he set's so great à Lustre upon Miracles vvrought by Infidels clearly intimating that our Saviours Dr Stillingfleets grand Offence professed Enemies have done as signal Wonders as the very best of Christians ever wrought Why doth he not plead also as strongly for the Idols of Heathens where their pretended wonders were usually shown He may as laudably stand for the one as defend the other 22. I well know not what great advantage the Dr get 's by his Story of two Asses The one heard S. Francis Preach the other Ammonianus his Lectures What then Mr Dr Doth it therefore follow that Ammonianus was as great à Saint as S. Francis Had we Sr no greater Evidence of that blessed man's Sanctity but the small wonder you relate he would never have gained so much renown in the world as he hath most justly merited But thanks be to God his humble mortifyed life and other glorious Miracles raised the Saint as far above any thing Ammonianus or his Asse ever did as Heaven is above earth I Dispute not whether that Infidel S. August lib. 21. de Civit. c. 6. had an Asse brought him by Magick Charms S. Austin tell 's you of greater wonders done by Divels And though we should Suppose which is not probable that the Divel put à Trick upon S. Francis that 's no prejudice to his Sanctity while that great Servant of God as his whole life showes never medled with Divels or Charms of Magick 23. The other Miracle I insisted upon was Se Reason and Relig. Disc 2. c. 9 from n. 11. that known and much Famed cure wrought upon à young man at Zaragosa in Spain who had his broken Leg cut off and à long time buried but at last Miraculously restored by the Intercession of our Blessed Lady This Miracle seen by thousands and thousands at Zaragosa and Madrid was upon the Attestation of many sworn Witnesses rigidly examined and aftervvards approved as à Prodigious vvork of God His Catholick Majesty and the whole Court in Madrid French The young mans Cure in Spain proved most Evidently English and Nobles of other Nations frequently conversed with the youth and to their great admiration beheld the Mark à round red Circle where his Leg was cut off now perfectly whole and sound Amongst others the Lord Hopton then Lord Ambassadeur in Spain often desired by his Catholick Majesty to be present at the young mans Examination vvas present and upon his return to England declared before many Noble men that the cure wrought upon that maimed youth was most certain What I here assert The Lord Hoptons attestation I had not long since from à right Honorable Person who in company with others heard my Lord Hopton's plain Testimony given of that cure as à Truth most certain not to be called into doubt 24. Reader Dr Still strange Answer to this most manifest Miracle will I am sure purchase him more Shame than Credit He thinks Pythagoras his Golden thigh may be held as Miraculous as that restored Leg unlesse saith he the Priest Abaris be proved à falser VVitnesse than Hieronymus Brizids or the People of Zaragosa lesse suspected of partiality than the Greeks at the Olympick Games at vvhich some Authors tell us Pythagoras shevved his golden thigh In the first place I might complain of the Dr ' s Jugling The Dr's unhandsome Dealing and ask why he minces matters why hee Tell 's my Story by halfe as if forsooth I had no greater Authority for that Miracle than Hierome Brizid's and the People of Zaragosa Too partial Attestation I produced innumerable other Witnesses then living in Zaragosa and Madrid also But let this passe the Dr was in hast willing enough to quit what he could not Answer 25. However one main circumstance or the Substance rather of that true Miracle can never be Answered The Boyes Leg as you have heard really flesh and bone was certainly cut off huried and Miraculously restored But who tell 's Mr Dr that Pythagoras had ever his Thigh parted from his Body cast away and one of Gold put in its place No Author assert's it or if any did it s à meer fourb or à false Illusion The main material Thing therefore failing in that The main thing fail's in the Dr's Story of Pythagoras pretended Wonder relating to Pythagoras no comparison can be made with the other true Miracle wrought at Zaragosa I require the Dr's Answers to this one particular 26. You will ask How can we show à Fourb Jamblicus in vita Pythagore cap. 2. or à false Illusion wrought by Necromancy in this Story of Pythagoras Iamblicus who tells à long Tale of Abbaris the Priest and of Pythagoras his showing à golden Thigh gives Evidence enough of à Fourb Abaris saith he à very old man leaving those Hyperborei or People living under the North-pole came to Pythagoras and gave him an Arrow which he had at his going out of Apollo's Temple thinking it would be useful to Pythagoras upon this Arrow

he presently drank of the water wherewith he had cleansed the wounds then taking recourse by earnest Prayer he petitioned the Father of mercy to show mercy upon the poor afflicted Patient and presently è vestigio saith the Bull he rose up perfectly cured freed from all his corrupted Botches and lothsome ulcers A young youth at Mulanum in the east Indies died of à pestilent feaver and wrapt up in his winding Sheet lay in it 24. houres then carryed to his Grave S. Xaverius beheld his disconsolate Parents weeping over him and moved with compassion fell on his Knees devoutly praying that God would restore the dead to life Then cutting open the Linnen wherein the Body Restores life to à young man dead lay he cast Holy water upon it signed it with the Sign of the Crosse took the dead by the hand and in the name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST restored him living and sound in health to his late sorrowful but now overjoyed Parents In memory of this certain known Miracle à Crosse was there erected and afterward had in great Veneration by all 5. The length of many other famous Miracles recorded in these Apostolical letters concerning B. S. Xaverius And the short time allowed to recount them forces me to passe by that strange cure wrought upon à Japonian Merchand And Sight to à Merchand many years blinde many years blind who was restored to his perfect Sight in à moment of time after the Saint had begged that favour and signed his Eyes with the Sign of the Holy Crosse When this Holy Servant of God was bound for China in à great Vessel with five hundred Passengers an unexspected Calme detained them all in one and the same place fourteen dayes together Among Salt water Miraculously made fresh by S. Xaverius other sad Accidents fresh water failing many of the Passengers cruelly tormented with Thirst began to languish whereupon the Saint commanded all the Vessels in the Ship to be filled with salt water ready at hand And having spent à short time in prayer made the Sign of the Holy Crosse upon the water which suddenly became sweet pleasant and drinkable Many Infidels seing the wonder were converted to our Christian Faith Some quantity of the water thus blessed by the Saint being carried up and down several Provinces of the Indies restored health to innumerable weak sick and infirm Persons See yet more Wonders in the Apostolical Letters 6. Now to Show that the Miracles hitherto briefly summon'd up are no pretended Fictions as our wise Dr simply speak's But undeniable Truths please courteous Reader to peruse Pope Vrbans Bull towards the End where you shall find how and in what manner the forenamed John King of Portugal piously moved with the report he had heard of S. Xaverius his admirable Sanctity and Miracles endeavovred All suspicion of forgery taken away to be informed of the Truth in all particulars And therefore gave expresse order to several Prelates that à rigid Processe and â most faithful Enquiry should be made after them which was exactly performed according to his Majesties Command and Sincerely presented to Pope Paul the V. who at the Instance of PHILIP the III. the Catholick King of Spain that much promoted the Canonization of S. Xaverius deputed several Cardinals there named to consider what ought to be done in so weighty à matter and to declare their Judgement to his Holinesse Whereupon for greater Assurance the deputed Cardinals sent back Letters to several Prelates in Spain Portugal and the Indies and in the interim examined new Witnesses in the Court of Rome 7. This Duty performed with all care and diligence after à long time and great Deliberation They made their Report to Pope Paul How the Processe concerning the Canonization was carried on and Judged that according to the Canonical Constitutions the Servant of God Francis Xaverius highly deserved upon the Account of his great merits Sanctity and Miracles wrought alive and dead to be registred in the Catalogue of the Saints Confessors and Canonized Soon after Pope Paul dyes and Gregory succeed's in the See Apostolick when not only PHILIP the IV. the Catholick King of Spain but many other Princes Prelates and the whole Clergy of India where S. Xaverius had been à long time Missioner pressed earnestly the Saints Canonization 8. Gregory proceeding warily in à matter of so great weight commanded the whole matter not only to be reviewed but most rigidly reexamined by several Cardinals there mentioned amongst whom Pope Vrbane the VIII who published this Bull then only Cardinal Barbarin was present This Examination accuratly performed all the Cardinals none dissenting still stood for the Canonization The Report of the whole Processe being made by Cardinal Franciscus Maria de Monte to his Holiness That done when Julius Zambeccarius Advocate of the consistorial Court had in à publick Consistory said much concerning the Holy life and Vertues of S. Xaverius and further declared the humble Petition of the Catholick King for the Canonization Pope Gregory answered he would Pope Gregory proceeds warily consult the matter once more with all the Cardinals and Bishops of the Roman Court And in the mean time exhorted them humbly to pray that God who is the VVay and Truth would so direct him that nothing might be done but what was true and acceptable in the sight of the Divine Majesty from whom he craved light and Assistance 9. In the next halfe publick Consistory the Pope commanded not only the Cardinals but the Patriarcks also Archbishops and Bishops to be present with the Notaries of the See APostolick and Auditours of the Sacred Palace where many things were again spoken of S. Xaverius his admirable life and glorious Miracles as also of the stupendious Conversions he had wrought among most Barbarous Nations Moreover à rehearsal being made of the Catholick Kings earnest promoting the Canonization which other Kings and Princes of the Christian Republick instantly likewise urged His Holiness required of every one then present freely to deliver their Opinion and all none dissenting with one unanimous voice blessing Almighty God declared for the Canonization of this admirable Saint 10. All ceremonies thus exactly performed according to the custome and Constitutions of the Roman Church his Holinesse Pope Gregory in the 2. year of his Reign the. 4. Ides of March in presence of the Cardinals Patriarchs Archbishops Bishops Prelates and other Officers of the Roman Court when à mighty Concourse of the Clergy and Regulars were assembled in that Magnificent Temple of the Prince of the Apostles His Holiness I say after Litanies sung and other Prayers said begging again the Assistance of the Holy Ghost openly declared and defined That Francis Xaverius S. Xaverius Canonized of whose Holy life Sincerit● in Faith and admirable frequent Miracles full proof and undoubted assurance had been given was a true Saint to be registred in the Catalogue of Saints Confessors and under that Notion