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A69640	An history of apparitions, oracles, prophecies, and predictions with dreams, visions, and revelations and the cunning delusions of the devil, to strengthen the idolatry of the gentiles, and the worshipping of saints departed : with the doctrine of purgatory, a work very seasonable, for discovering the impostures and religious cheats of these times / collected out of sundry authours of great credit, and delivered into English from their several originals by T.B. ; whereunto is annexed, a learned treatise, confuting the opinions of the Sadduces and Epicures, (denying the appearing of angels and devils to men) with the arguments of those that deny that angels and devils can assume bodily shapes ; written in French, and now rendred into English ; with a table to the whole work.	Bromhall, Thomas.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4885; ESTC R15515	377,577	402

falling sicknesse was cured hence it came to passe that the Kings of England were wont on Good Friday with many ceremonies to hallow the Ring the which whosoever put upon his finger should never be troubled with this disease Polydor. lib. 8. THe Statue of Saint Paul an old piece which Andronicus Comnenus Tyrannus adorning with Gold placed in the Church of holy Quadraginta which wept when the time approached that Andronicus was destroyed Andronicus hearing thereof commanded his servants to find out whether that were true to which service besides others his beloved servant Hagiocristophorita Stephanus by stairs ascended for the Statue was in a high place and wiped the eyes thereof with fine linnen whereupon tears more plentifully fell from them as if they had flowed from a spring which with great amazement he told Andronicus struck thereupon with great grief often shaking his head he said Paul wept for the great destruction that is to come to himself for he accounts it his own cause for he most cordially loved Paul and did infinitely esteem his sayings and was as well beloved by Paul And not long after hanged up by the heels he expired his life by horrible torments Nicetas lib. 2. LEo the fifth of Ironomacum his Mother as it seemed to her saw in the Temple of the Virgin Mary at Blachernes a certain woman her sonne apparelled in white following her and the floor of the Church being besprinkled with blood another woman carrying a Spear in her hand commanded a vessel to be filled and to be given to the Mother of the King which refused by her she said to her Thy son destroyes and gluts himself with the blood of all that worship we wherefore I and my sonne are not without cause moved with wrath against him The Mother of the King affrighted out of her sleep presently declares what she had by Vision and earnestly desires him to desist from the persecution of Images But he like the deaf Adder stopped his ears though he was somewhat afraid and the more for that the dream of another was declared to him For Tarasius the Patriarch appeared to a certain man calling vehemently upon one whose name was Michael that he should go to Leo and kill him in revenge of them whom most impiously and cruelly he had put to death for their Religion And not long after while he was in the Temple at divine service he was slain by the conspiracy of Michael Traulus Cuspinianus BArdus Durus a little before his destruction dreamed That as he was making haste with the Emperour Michael to the solemnization of a certain holy-day to the great Temple whither when they approached near they followed certain men apparelled in white who led them to Seats about the Tribunal wherein they saw a certain old man sitting alone whom he thought to be Peter chief of the Apostles at whose feet Ignatius was cast down whom a little before they had severely bound and castigated in revenge of the wrongs he had done moreover Peter delivering a sword to one of them who stood by commanding that Theorgistus for so he called Caesar as obnoxious to divine wrath should be placed amongst those who stood on the left hand and cut in pieces and Asebotecnus by this name he deciphers that Emperour as an impious son Cedrenus A Nocturnal Vision discovered to A●brose the Mediolanensian Bishop the bodies of the Martyrs Gervasius and Protasius it not being known to that day where they lay they appearing to him in his sleep such as when they were found So at Jerusalem in the seventh year of the reign of the Emperour Honorius it appeared to Gamaliel Lucianus a Priest by dream where the body of Stephen the Protomartyr and the bodies of the sons of Abiba lay nor did he give credit to his dream or Vision till the same was thrice presented to him in his sleep and then seeking for the bodies he found them in number and form according to his Vision the Church keeps a holy-day for the invention of Stephen at this time in testimony hereof Fulgosus lib. 1. cap. 5. SOzomenus gives a large narration how Pulcheria sister to Theolosius found out the fourty Martyrs which suffered under Lucinius at a certain placed Sebastes in Armenia whose reliques as by digging she caus'd to be search't for Thirsus the Martyr appearing to her suggested and admonish'd her to translate them to him and afterwards the fourty Martyrs in a military habit splendidly apparelled manifested themselves to her Sozomenus lib. 9. cap. 2. Nicephorus saith that Stephen the Protomartyr appeared to Pulcheria whose reliques when the Citizens of Constantinople desired to take away and keep with them he saith the Mules which drew the Coach wherein the reliques were spoke with a voyce like to men THere appeared to a certain Husbandman named Calemorus belonging to the Nice-President Chophares near Eleutheropolis in Palestine the Prophet Zacharias who taking into a certain Orchard shewed the places digged wherein his reliques lay Sozomenus lib. 9. cap. 8. IT was commonly reported amongst the Venetians That it was not for a long time known in what place the body of St. Mark lay and that it was either by divine power translated from the place wherein it had there layn or was stoln away but upon publike warning of a solemn day set apart to fast and pray and observation thereof accordingly the Citizens following the Clergy to the Temple of the Saint they say this miracle happened that an arm rising out of a side of the Church appeared to the anxious and solicitous multitude whereupon with great joy they remove the body and lay it in a more honourable place moreover it was decreed that it should onely be lawfull for the Prince and Procurators of the Temple to come to the most sacred Tomb of St. Mark Sabel lib. 3. Ennead 9. SAint Benedict appeared to Pope Urban in his sleep and said Doubt not but my body rests at Cassinum and for a testimony of the certainty hereof thou rising with thy brethren to perform the office of the Church for Nocturns shalt be cured of the Plurisie wherewith thou art now afflicted The event proved directly according to the Vision Chronicon Cassinense lib. 4. cap. 5. BAsilius Macedo who afterwards obtained the Empire of Constantinople when he was a child lost his father His mother much afflicted with poverty resolved by her labour in service to maintain her self and son coming to Megalopolis at night because poor woman she wanted wherewithall to defray her charges at an Inne she went to the Church of Saint Diomedes and being wearied with her travel fell asleep the holy Martyr that night appeared to a certain Deacon of that house which had not yet taken the orders of a Priest in a dream and commands that he take into the house the King which lay out a doors in a ditch close to the porch of the Temple The Deacon awakened with his dream went out and finds Basil a young

youth asleep and thinking it a sleepy phantasm returned into the Temple and falling asleep again he was again and again awakened with the same Vision wherein he was strictly admonished that he should fetch in the King therefore at length he goeth to Basilius and raising him from his sleep courteously invited and led him into the Temple and helped him to all necessary accommodation whereof he then stood in need This Deacon had a friend and kinsman at that time a servant to Theophiliza who for his affinity was familiar with the Emperour Michael and Barda Caesar his Uncle by his mothers side this Deacon declares to his brother the vision he had seen and desires him that he would help this Basill whom according to the command he had in his vision entertained into the service of some Prince who preferred him to his Lord Theophiliza and presently these two brothers tell the dream to Basil and bind him by oath to requite what kindness he had received from them when ●e should enjoy his Kingdom Cuspinianus ex Zonara Cedreno ELfred King of England heavily afflicted with the losse he received by the victory of the Danes over him Bishop Chulbert appeared to him in his sleep saying England is justly scourged for her former sins but Almighty God looks with mercy and compassion upon the meritorious prayers sufferings and tears of his distressed servants and Saints thy Kingdom is with much cruelty extorted from thee but after a short time of affliction thou shalt be gloriously restored and firmly settled in thy Land and this shall be the sign of the certainty of what I tell thee Thy fishers shall this next day come to thee laden with infinite store of fish And which increaseth the Miracle though the waters be frozen so that humane reason cannot possibly hope for any such thing and the coldness of the weather is such that it seemeth a most ridiculous thing to endeavour to catch fish yet what I say shall come to pass and when thou art in prosperity remember thy deliverance and the messenger thereof his mother had the like Vision both of them awaking tell their dreams and immediately the fishers come to them with abundance of fish Vincentius lib. 24. cap. 40. ex Holinand Et Willielmus lib. 2. cap. 14. de gestis Anglorum WHen Hungus King of the Picts a Christian was to fight with Athelstane King of England in ayd of the Scots in the night the Armies both of Hungus and Athelstane saw in the Firmament a shining cross in the form of St. Andrews cross resembling the Greek letter χ which was cause of fear and terrour to them But Hungus warned by a dream encouraging his Souldiers assured them that the cross was a sign of Victory to them which accordingly came to pass Cardanus lib. 13. de rerum varietate cap. 81. EDgar King of the Scots being about to fight against Donaldus was admonished by a dream that he should bring with him the standard of St. Cutbert therefore having performed some accustomed holy ceremonies and devotions he took the standard out of the Monastery and the Souldiers belonging to Donaldus forsaking him he was taken without sedition or blood shed Cardanus ibidem ULadislaus and Geysa brethren as they were setting their Army in order to fight a battle against Salomon King of the Hungarians an Angel was perceived by Uladislaus to put a crown of gold upon the head of Geysa who as soon as his brother informed him thereof vowed to dedicate a Temple in the place where he should obtain the victory to the blessed Virgin and the Enemies being overcome deliberately advising concerning the same where hard by a Church dedicated to St. Peter behold a Stag which had a most remarkable head with broad interwoven horns upon whom most shining shapes appeared he made towards a Wood and there stood at gaze where the Temple was afterwards built the Souldiers following after the Stag and seeking with their arrows to shoot him he fled into Danubius and was never afterwards seen Ladislaus much taken with this wonderfull sight saith No doubt but this was the Angel of God but what was that appearance of a face in his horns presently saith Geysa They were not horns but wings nor shapes of bright faces but most glorious shining feathers but where he stood at gaze is the place wherein we are directed to build the Temple wherefore hard by the Church of St. Peter they built a Temple to the blessed Mother Bonfinius lib. 3 4. Decad. 2. THe night before Theodosius joyned battle with Eugenius at the Alpes he dreamed as Paul Diaconus and Nicephorus write that two men gloriously apparelled in white sitting upon white horses commanded him to begin his battle by the break of day for it was decreed by Divine providence that he should victoriously overcome his enemies and that they declared their names to be John the Evangelist and Philip the Apostle and that a certain Souldier had the like dream is reported by Theodoretus lib. 5. cap. 24. MAssaclerus sent by the Emperour Honorius against Gildo to regain Africa from his brother who ambitiously affected the Empire in his sleep dreamed that he saw the Mediolensian Bishop Ambrose a dead man long before with his pastorall staff to strike the ground thrice and thrice to say Here even in this very place And the next day Massaclerus with much facility overthrew Gildo Fulgosus THe Roman Prince retreating to Antioch Andrew the Apostle appeared to a Priest named Peter Pontius one indued with simplicity void of fraud and shewed to him the Spear which pierced our Saviour's side which lay buried in a Temple dedicated to St. Peter upon finding whereof the besieged City oppressed with famine were so far encouraged that they made a gallant Sally wherby they overcame Corbana who besieged the City by command and advice of Belfech Turca King of the Persians he being encouraged thereunto by divination gathered from the flying of birds the Bishop of Nicene carrying the Lance which had pierced our Saviours side amongst the Troops of those who sallied out in array against the besiegers Emilius WHen there had been long and doubtfull War 'twixt the Romans and Rossians those who came from Constantinople to John Zimisca auxiliaries to the Emperour did by divine providence assist the Romans for as it is reported a storm did violently beat in the faces of their enemies and furthermore a mighty horseman was seen of many who running amongst the Romans broke the Ranks of the Enemies and it appears it was Theodore for that a Religious Woman of Byzantium dreamed the night before that fight that she saw the Mother of God with a great company who said O Theodore thy dear friend John and mine too is in a great strait being now in battell Wherefore bring him speedy help she told her dream to certain honest friends of hers who observing the time found that it was the very night before the last day of