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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

Prayers said over it Arm'd with it alone he Encountred those Tygers who in numerous Troups came out of their Forest in the Island Sancian and ever devoured those Portugueses who ventured out of their Trenches Casting it at them he so put them to flight that they have not since been seen in that Island Do we believe God is Honor'd by our Vows but most singularly by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass It was by vowing a certain number of Masses that this Saint in a moment conquered the stubborn Heart of a Great Man at Malaca recalling him from an impious Despair the whole City was equally scandalized and afflicted at and disposing him to a due Contrition a firm Confidence in the Sacred Merits and precious Blood of Christ a happy Death Are Pilgrimages to Places of particular Devotion in use amongst us as approved by the pious Practice of all Ages and Christian Nations This Saint undertook one of Fifty Miles to the Sepulchre of St. Thomas and God approved his Devotion by a Revelation of his Divine Will touching what he asked to be directed in The Gift of Prophecy he often made use of to call upon the Prayers of the Faithful for the Dead at the moment they departed this Life at a vast distance of Place as in particular for John Galvan and at another time for John d'Araos two Portugueze Merchants If we Honor the glorious Trophy of our Redeemer's Cross he planted it in almost all the Towns and High-ways of the East-Indies and of several Kingdoms of Japan Such Miracles were wrought in favor of those who resorted to them that in their presence they might adore their Crucified Lord as raised a tender Devotion in all those pious Neophites towards that glorious Standard the Pledge of Jesus's Victories over Sin and Death So that the Christians of Amboyno Besieged in their Castle by the Javares a Heathenish and Barbarous Nation unconcerned for themselves only sought to withdraw from the Savage Fury of their Enemies that Cross which Xaverius had arbor'd there well knowing that Jesus could equally be Honored or Insulted over in his Cross They covered it with Cloth of Gold and hid it under Ground then opened their Gates to their Enemies who having sought in vain the Cross could not prevail with any one even of the weaker Sex or tenderest Age to discover where it lay tho' most of them were maimed many killed for that Refusal I conclude with an Observation of St. Augustin on Miracles which he says are wrought either per publicam Justitiam or per Lib. octog trium Q Q. signa publicae Justitiae that is by a Virtue which God publishes to the World or by the Signs Sacraments Practices of Piety and Virtue That is whenever a Miracle is wrought 't is certain either that the Person or that which he uses or would persuade to is very Holy and that God declares it so Take whether you please Do these Miracles wrought by Xaverius prove him a Saint a Servant of God who had intimate Communications with his Lord was highly favored by him If so can any one be persuaded that so holy a Man used not his sincerest Endeavors to attain the Knowledge of the true Faith and Religion or that God who so extraordinarily favored him refused to reveal unto him so important a Truth Can we conceive a Man of a Sanctity so approved by Almighty God to have been an Idolater a Man of an unsound Faith Superstitious Ignorant Deluded If you had rather conclude the Means he used in the working of these Prodigies were holy and that God declared them such it follows That all Catholic Devotions and Practices and those Points of Belief from which they naturally flow in which all Sectaries dissent from us are very holy and confirm'd by the Divine Authority of Miracles I must confess I cannot conceive what a Thinking Man can yet object to these Miracles wrought by Xaverius whereby he may lessen the Obligation laid on him to betake himself to the Bosom of that Catholic Church to the Sincerity of whose Doctrin only to the Piety of whose Practices God gives so miraculous an Approbation as all these Prodigies make up Can it be objected by any particular Man that he himself hath seen no one of like Miracles This would be as plausible a Plea for an Atheist against the Miracles of Christ and his Apostles Herod himself if this be received is not guilty for mocking Erat cupiens signum Videre our Blessed Lord he never saw him work a Miracle tho' he much desired and sought it from Christ himself 'T is the same Impiety to require a fresh Miracle for the truth of Catholic Belief after these so publickly wrought by Xaverius as to exact the like in proof of Christ's Divinity after those which he and his Apostles wrought And considering the Conversions in the greatest part of the new World effected by Xaverius's Miracles I cannot but say to such an one in St. Augustin's words * Accepimus Majores nostros visibilia miracula sequutos esse per quos id actum est ut necessaria non essent posteris Nec jam nobis esse dubium debet iis esse credendum qui cum ea praedicarent quae pauci assequuntur se tamen sequendos populis persuadere potuerunt Aug. de ver Relig. cap. 25. Quisquis etiam num quaerit prodigium magnum est ipse prodigium qui mundo credente non credit De Civit. Dei l. 22. c. 8. We are taught that our Ancestors followed visible Miracles after which none others are necessary to guide us We cannot doubt but that we ought to believe those Apostles who Preaching such things as few can conceive or reach yet persuaded whole Nations to follow them For what Doctrin it was Xaverius confirmed by his Miracles is a known thing and out of debate Whoever after such requires yet a Miracle is to me himself a great Prodigy who refuses to believe what a World doth not doubt of I know some will object That should an Angel come from Heaven to teach them otherwise than the Gospel doth we ought even not to return him any other Answer than Anathema That Miracles are then only to be considered and valued when the Doctrin in favor whereof they are wrought is known to be true and sound This had been an excellent Plea for the Scribes and Pharisees against Christ The Jews had a positive Command to believe no Worker of Miracles Deut. 13. that should teach them a Doctrin contrary to what they had received from Moses they were bid in Doubts of that nature to have their recourse to the High-Priest and they forfeited their Life who refused to obey him The Scribes Pharisees Priests judging of the Miracles of Christ by his Doctrin condemned both as when he Cured upon the Sabbath-day and reproached him as a Magician for casting out Devils in the Power of Beelzebub Did Christ alter his Method Did he

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 JESVS Apostle of the INDIES and Kingdom of JAPAN By the R. F. LEWIS SABRA● of the same Society PERMISSU SVPERIORVM LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel And are sold at his Printing-house on the Ditch-side in Black-Fryers 1687. A SERMON Preach'd in the Chappel of his Excellency The SPANISH Embassador On the Second Sunday of Advent December 4. 1687. Caeci vident claudi ambulant leprosi mudantur surdi audiunt mortui resurgunt pauperes Evangelizantur beatus qui non fuerit scandalizatus in me Matt. 11. 5 6. The blind see the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear the dead rise to life the poor have the Gospel preached to them and happy is he who is not scandalized in me IT is a weighty Doubt which in this Sundays Gospel St. John moves by his Disciples his Chains not allowing him the liberty to offer it himself to our Blessed Lord to be resolved a Tu es qui venturus es Matt. 11. Are you he who is to come Are you that Saviour whom for so many Ages the sighing Prophets have asked gracious Heaven hath promised the longing Earth expected An Important Quaere For what can be of a nearer concern than not to mistake our God b Haec est vita aeterna ut cognoscant te solum Deum verum quem misisti Jesum Christum Joan. 17. 'T is that Life everlasting which we hope for to know by the light of Glory our sole true God and him he hath sent Jesus Christ And 't is the only way leading to that Life to know Both here by the light of Faith. But doth the Voice then question the Word that formed and sent it Is that Head-Mystery concealed from St. John than whom a greater Prophet is not born of a Woman No certainly The Eternal Father lately bore in his presence witness to Christ at the Bank of the River Jordan Even when yet inclos'd in his Mothers Womb he owned his Lord and Prophesied of him before he could speak Lately he proclaimed him to be the Lamb of God which takes away the Sins of the World T is at the very proposal of this Doubt that he receives that high Character of c Major inter natos mulierum propheta Joanne Baptista nemo est Luc. 7. Joan. 1. More than a Prophet becoming by this his Embassy also an Apostle for d Ut sibi quaerens illis disceret Hier ad Aglas as St. Jerom observes St. John proposes the Doubt of his mistaken Disciples that they may be instructed by Jesus his Answer 'T is their Ignorance e Non suae sed discipulorum ignorantiae Joannes consulit Hil. sup Matt. says S. Hilary that he designs to remove not his own Knowledge that he would improve Christians of England if I may call by one Name People of so different a Belief of such opposit Persuasions the Church of God asks in her Gospel the same Question this Day Tu es Are you the Lord And well she may when she finds her Subjects so divided about him * Matt. 24. Here is Christ says one with my Band only No There is Christ in that other different Party says a Second He is within says a Third this Private Spirit of mine singles him from amongst the false ones He was in the Wilderness another pretends there he had been hidden for many Ages till we lately discover'd him Thus each Sect each Party each Division challenges him He is not in all these so different so opposite Beliefs for he is not f Non enim est dissentionis Deus sed pacis 1 Cor. 14. the God of Dissention but of Peace and Unity To correct these various Errors to redress so dangerous Mistakes the true Church in imitation of St. John asks him this Day the same Question Tu es Are you the Lord you that are Adored by my Children Worshipped on my Altars I know each Sect will answer Here he is this is his true Worship which I pay But we are never the nearer some unquestionable and potent Proof must be offered Hence our Blessed Lord answered not the Disciples of St. John by a bare Assertion I am he All Deceivers and Antichristian Cheats could give in that Answer for themselves each false Prophet was ever the readiest to cry out The Word of the Lord the pure Word of the Lord. Jesus brought Facts in lieu of Words and elsewhere assures us that if he had g Si ego testimonium perhibeo de meipso testimonium meum non est verum Joan. 5. 31. with bare words born witness to himself and challenged thereupon to be believed it ought to have been held as a false one and not to have been regarded This was his Answer The blind see the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear the dead rise to life Behold the First Proof and Mark Miracles unquestionable by reason of their greatness number evidence The poor are preached unto behold the Second to wit those unusual Means humanly of no force used to convert and subdue the World by poor silly ignorant Men and again their refusal of all human Helps towards so vast an Enterprise And happy is he who is not scandalized in me behold the Third to wit those eminent supernatural Gifts and Blessings bestowed on those who embraced his Poverty and Abjection so unknown unto or despised by the World which were undeniable Proofs of his Apostles Holiness We agree all about the Messias convinced by those undoubted Marks now observed but many are the more miserable and guilty whilst they debate about his Doctrin and Law and so neither receive the one nor obey the other How shall a well-meaning Man clear these Doubts and find out his true Doctrin Church Worship whom he owns to be his God and Redeemer Could any of this Churches Witnesses give the same Evidence and Proofs which Christ gave for himself our Differences would be at an end our Doubts cleared our Faith setled Christian Auditors God most mercifully offers us many one I will produce this Day the great Apostle of the Indies and the Kingdoms of Japan Xaverius All things concur to move me to speak of him First my Text for I intend to prove that his Life and Actions give the same Answer the same Proofs for the truth of the Catholic Church which Christ gave to evince himself to be the true Messias So that if we proceed on those Motives which Christ himself judged the clearest and safest we must all be Catholics or no Christians Next the general Devotion of the pious World towards this great Apostle of our Days during this Octave of his Feast exacts it of me Again the