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A77347	Saul and Samuel at Endor, or The new waies of salvation and service, which usually temt [sic] men to Rome, and detain them there Truly represented, and refuted. By Dan. Brevint, D.D. As also a brief account of R.F. his Missale vindicatum, or Vindication of the Roman Mass. By the same author.	Brevint, Daniel, 1616-1695.	1674 (1674)	Wing B4423; ESTC R212267	257,888	438

the Rosary both to save all sorts of sinners and to please the Holy Virgin I say St. Dominic knew it before for when he praied against the Albigenses r Bovius Tom. 13. an 1213. the Queen of Mercy appeared to him and bad him to set up the Rosary and to teach all men that form of Praier as most acceptable Service both to her self and to her Son And besides this Instrument saies she shall be a singular weapon to destroy Heresies and Vices to advance all sorts of Vertue and to obtain both the Divine Mercy and my help All this was farther represented by two notable Visions which a Bishop saw in a Dream In one he saw S. Dominic s Gonon Chronic. an 1315. making a Bridg with 150 Towers upon it to bring sinners into a Garden where the Queen of mercy was giving Crowns to others but to himself a sharp Censure for his being not sound in the Faith concerning that Article of Catholic Religion But in the other this prelat being grown very little better by what he had seen in the former he found himself and many more in a most stinking t Ibid. Lake and Puddle where certainly they had bin choakt but that both the Goddess and the Apostle of the Rosary let down from above a long Chain made of 150 small Rings and some few others bigger among them by means whereof all were drawn out Thus far you see what the Holy Rosary can do now you must learn how to use it 1. It is needful to begin it deliberately u Mart. Navar. de Horis Canon c. 13. n. 15. that is saies the best and surest Author you can find in that Church not to do it like men in a dream who may walk and kneel and say their praiers altho they sleep but to begin it with a set purpose of doing what the Church enjoines For tho there are several Examples of men that were saved out of Hell for either wearing x Alan Rediv. part 5. c. 43. a Rosary or for giving it to y Id. part 1. c. 21. a friend without using it otherwise these are extraordinary Blessings rather granted to some to recommend the Excellency of Rosaries then to encourage holy men to that abuse 2. Tho of course as it appears by the ordinary Gloss z Clement in Concil Vien de Celebrat Misserum Tit. 13. upon the Council of Vienna Rosaries might be used as well as other forms of Praiers are without actual attention which manner of Praying without the mind is called by them the fruit † Ibid. of the Lips and thus the Lips may do the work in reading the hourly Praiers whilst the heart runs another way yet besides the first Deliberation and set purpose in the Beginning my more sober and severe director requires a kind of General attention in the Progress of this Service that is to say you are not bound to attend what words you say nor to care much what sense they bear since neither of these two can be well done without some help of the Latin tongue which you have not But whilest you dispatch your Aves and tumble over and over your Beades you must have what they call the Third or the * Paul Layman Theol. Moral l. 4. Tract 1. c. 5. n. 9. Spiritual Attention that is a Navàrrus De Hor. Can. c. 13. n. 4. to remember for example that you are at Mass there to fancy the Real Presence and to pray heartily that what the Mass Priest doth or saies for you tho you do not know what it is may be granted My good God or my sweet Lady saies the Catholic worshipper as b Navar. Ibidem this severe Divine advises him I do not understand what I hear and I as little understand what I say yet I believe that I both hear and say thy Praises and that I pray for my self and all other Christians after the intention of the Holy Church Grant me O Dear Lord or Lady what I desire not knowing what This being done and the men being thus well disposed let Mass hourly Praiers and Rosaries be what they will Greek or Latin Pater noster or la sol fa all is one to Roman Worshippers And as to the 15 Mysteries and 165 Contemplations all this must not trouble his head as it might most really do and it may be c turn his Brain too if he were oblig'd to care for it for it seems these Contemplations and Mysteries are involved in the Rosary as a great Tresure under Walls to make it vastly rich and powerful altho the owner perceive it not Thus their consecrating Words Hoc est enim corpus meum can work Miracles from the mouth of an Ignorant and so do mostly Spells and Characters in the mouth of a Conjurer Origen observes somewhere that the words of Abraham Isaac and Sabaoth that Magicians did enchant with did work far better in that Tongue which was unknown to them then in their own You may hear of strange Fears also don by words taken out of the Latin Psalms which the Witches do not understand And so must at this rate Ave Maria Pater noster good and holy words otherwise if they do such Miracles as they say contract likewise a strange Virtue from some Extrinsecal Principle which is neither understood nor thought of Mean while what Church is this and where can the Papists find such another that dispatches the Divine Service as Conjurers do their mischief in a strange Tongue 3. To say the Rosary after the best way without distracting your self about Contemplations and Mysteries take me the Virgin d Navar. de Rosar Miscell 26. n. 2. by her self that so the whole strength of your Soul may the better mind her alone And fancy her the best you can in some of those Conditions which her Images can help you to either as hearing with reverence the Message of the Angel Gabriel Ave Maria c. or looking stedfastly on her Baby whom she hath commonly on her left Arm or else sitting like a great Queen close to God upon a high Throne and there hearkening to what we say To use your fancy to this way you must salute her thrice a day at Morning Noon and Sun-setting when you hear the Bell Salve Regina and at each time e Ibid. adore one of those three Members or parts of her which were the seats of the greatest Wonders 1. Her Belly in these or such Words O most glorious Queen of Mercy I do salute the venerable Temple of thy Womb Ave Maria. 2. Her Heart O most glorious Queen of Mercy I salute thy Virgin Heart which never had any tincture of sin Ave Maria. 3. Her Soul O most glorious Mother of Mercy I salute your most noble Soul deckt as it is with all the pretious Ornaments of Gifts of Vertues and of Graces Ave Maria 4. Thus having got your self into some f Ibid.

by the Roman Church must be a greater Temtation For what would you have more temting then this By this saving Office say they h Al. Gazaeus supra pag. 69. if you use it now especially when his Holiness hath improved it with Apostolical Indulgences 1. You may lay claim to Heaven not merely upon the title of mercy from God but by that of Justice and Condignity as your own Right 2 You may satisfy Divine Justice both for your sins and the sins of others 3. What would you have more by these Praiers whatsoever you can ask in the Name of the Savior and in the name of the Savioress Mary too you shall receive it For who can be so incredulous as not to be sure to have all in order to his real Good and Salvation by this form of Praier thus approved of by the Church recommended by God himself they mean the little Baby who bids men to pray to his Mother and in an especial manner consecrated to the Virgin Maries Service What a hot friend she proves to be and how Zealous to undertake for the silliest Fellow that is her Client S. Damian can best tell you i Cardin. Damian l. 2. Ep. 14. A pitiful sottish Man who had no spark of Grace in him but that he could sing Ave Maria and bow passing by her Altar had bin deprived of his Pension by a Bishop who thought himself bound in Conscience to free the Church from such a Wretch But then the Goddess comes by night and falls foul upon the Prelat and being seconded by an Angel who had a burning Taper in one hand and a lusty whip in the other What saies he wrong'st thou my Chaplain and takest thou from him what thou didst not give At last after many sound stripes the Bishop being taught good manners was glad to cry out peccavi and to restore to that worthy Man the stipends which he had kept from him This is but a temporal Concern but here is one which is Eternal It is somewhat long but it concerns all Men to know it and I have it from the same Saint k Card. Damian supra An ugly Fellow named Bassus who died a sudden death had the good luck to die so in coming from one of our Ladies Churches He having bin in his Coffin the greatest part of the night after his death rose up out of it suddenly both affrighted and affrighting others for with a terrible tone he cried for Praiers Litanies to scare away those ugly Spirits who watch'd for him about the Room and at last being come to himself for Ave Maria and Holy Water had soon frighted the Devils away when my poor Soul saies he parted from me presently came on some black Troopers this Fellow said they is our prize for he hath ever lived after the Flesh and never knew what the Spirit was His good Angel could say nothing but that he was dead in the service of their Mistress the Queen of Heaven and that whosoever hath her favor cannot perish by the power of any Judg. To this they make bold to reply that God being Just would do nothing for a Sinner to their prejudice and thereupon the Devils grew so earnest after their Prey and the Angels on the other side so remiss in keeping their charge that the Wretch was upon the point of being given up as he deserved when behold the Queen of Heaven came among them and an Army of Celestial Soldiers with her and with such a splendor besides that the Devils durst not look up Nevertheless with reverence they protested against the wrong which the former Angels had done them in detaining from them their just Prey and that if God and she were just they could not rescue such a sinner out of their hands The Queen confessed he had bin so but yet her Son and Lord would never suffer that one who had ended his daies in her service as this Fellow had done in going to visit her Church should ever suffer their Cruelty and withal he had confessed tho he had not the time to do Penance Hence the Devil took a fit time to tell her what a Villain he was and what ugly Abomination he had never confessed and that is true saies the revived Man of himself at which the Mother of Mercy started but at last after a kind of modest silence in reverence to this plain truth having somewhat recovered her self It is as you say saies she but yet of course Mercy goes before Judgment Go back again to thy Body saies she to him and then confess to such a Priest whom she named what these Spirits lay to thy charge and in my name charge such Friars whom she named also to take upon them thy Penance Then come again without delay for I will not stir hence till thou come The Rascal being confessed saies the Cardinal Damian and the Holy Friars having taken upon themselves the satisfaction enjoined him by the Confessor died again but as sweetly as if he had but fallen asleep A happy Sinner indeed who can find such a Savioress as will give way to all his Crimes and secure him from punishment Men troubled in their Consciences and unwilling to leave their sins do not consider the Absurdity tho visible in all such Stories but see their own conveniency and what could please and fit then better then such a protecting Goddess Add to this Enchantment of daily Praiers to the Virgin the Devotion of Fasting and Hearing one Mass to her Honor every Saturday the Temtation will be ended and your Soul safe This weekly piece of Devotion on Saturday Officium Sabbatinum is grounded as they say l Durand Rational l. 4. c. 1. upon three Reasons 1. Because the Saturday and the Sunday or the Ladies day and the Lords day as do the Lord and the Lady go together 2. Because as God the Father rested upon that day and kept it holy under the Law so must the Goddess his Daughter and Wife do the like under the Gospel 3. Because she is an entrance to Eternal Life as Saturday is to the Sunday But if you will be so refractory as not to acquiesce in these Reasons be you satisfied with a Miracle They say m Gonon Chron. an 770. that in the Year 770. it is pity it did not happen sooner that the Holy Apostles and the Fathers might have observ'd it a great Cortin that hanged before our Ladies Image all the Week long was miraculously drawn up as they suppose into Heaven from Friday at Vespers to Sunday Night so that the People could see her Face for the space of 24 hours and adore her accordingly This Miracle constantly veiling and unveiling the Virgin Mary on Saturday as well as the other that the Night of her Assumtion made all sorts of Lights burn without wasting is quite abolish'd But the Benefit and the Charm to induce you to hear her Mass Missa de S. Maria in Sabbato