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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

put them in again both so fast and so dexterously where they had bin that he was well of them ever after At another time she came to his Bed and finding him lying on that side where he had bin let Blood in the Arm she turned him upon the other and shew'd him how to lie and sleep without fear of farther danger If these evil Spirits dare thus appear under the name of Christs blessed Mother whereof Scripture gives no warning it is no wonder if they do it under the name of Christ himself after so many Prophecies It is not the true Christ certainly that being Immortal in Heaven comes down either at every Mass there to lie as if he were dead under the hand of any Priest or to shew tricks of Activity under the shape of a young Child and act among Nuns and Novices twenty silly Pranks in their Churches We are not bound to believe all but it were hard to believe nothing when so many and great Doctors and among them some great Saints too aver for truth one and the same thing One saies he hath seen this little Child creeping out s Matth. Paris in vita S. Godric at the mouth of a Crucifix 't is all that a Sparrow could do but the Devil can do much more and thence jumping into the Lap of an Image and thence flying up again the way that he came Another saies That St Ida t Menol. Cisters 29 Octob. had him and kissed him and embraced him ut sponsa sponsum that is as you may think as a young Wife kisses and embraces her young Husband The worst is that once when being to sing and by her order to stretch out her arm she was put to a great distress lest he should fall Cogitate c. Look to it my Lord saies the young Nun to the Baby for I must obey my Order but the Baby was a strong Child and so twisted himself about her neck that he had no need of her holding him till she had don with her Anthemn and so she took him in her Lap. St Agnes u Bov. 14. Annal. an 1317. n. 2. had him too witness the little Cross which in a loving way she stole at the same time out of his bosom And so had St Catharine of the Order of St. Clara x Flamin in vita S. Cathar being brought to her by his own Mother to kiss upon a Christmas Eve St Boniface y Henriquez Fascicul SS had him likewise brought to his Bed in Swadling-clothes by the same Dame As for St. Lucia of the Order of St Dominic z Chronic. Ord. Praedic she had him three daies and three nights during which time it is remarkable that the Virgin Maries Image had no Baby on its left Arm. At last Dominus Jesus the Lord Jesus God have mercy on the Blasphemer took her to Wife when he look'd as if he had bin but seven years old in the presence of all his Saints What shall I say of St. Hostradus and others who mistook these enchanting Devils for real Appearances of the Infant Christ and upon this Illusion a Henriquez 3. Jan. some did offer him as we do to Children something to eat some did take him b Chronic. Deip. an 1285. upon their knees others did c Ibid. an 1235. play with him and with St. John who was his Companion at it These few Instances may serve the turn to let pious Souls see with grief that as according to the Prophesies Jerusalem was troden and danced upon by ugly Owles and wild Satyrs Isa 13.21 So the Roman Church is made a Stage for vile Spirits to act upon If some say these were Visions I grant they were and Divelish ones too For where are the good Saints or Angels that will represent much lest act Christ and the Blessed Virgin under such shameful Personages If you are for sounder Miracles tho good Catholics must take these for very real and true ones or most of their Saints are but Cheats go to the Founders of their Orders you shall find about St. Francis d S. Bonavent In vita S. Francisci Sheep and Asses running to hear his Sermon Swine falling dead under his Curse for having hurt a poor Lamb all sorts of Cattel recovering with the Water he washt his feet in Women presently eas'd of the hardest Travel by applying to them some of the Hay which his Mule was used to eat This don go to St. Dominic you shall find him either at Mass e Joh. Gargo in vita S. Dominic ac Lipom. hanging in the Air like a Bird or at the Bed-side of a sick Woman transubstantiating Worms into Pearls or by the Water-side raising the River into a Flood or at his Devotions forcing the Devil to hold a light and to burn his Fingers in that Service or it may be changing the Sex of a young Girl into a Boy Lastly If you will know what Feats Women also can do sometimes read me but the Life f Tho Cantapr in vita S. Christinae ap Sur. Jun. an 1160. item Jacob. de Vitriaco in vita S. Mariae Oeigniar of Saint Christina to say nothing of St. Brigitta St. Juliana St. Clara Saint Vrsula with hundreds more known and famous in the Roman Church This great Saint arose from the dead twice before she died for good and all and so died thrice All her Life long she had a very extraordinary gift of Miracles for having taken upon her to save Souls from Purgatory by suffering here what they did there she loved to throw her self into all the hot Ovens or burning Fires she could find yet met with none that could burn her she would attone for Gluttons by resolving to starve her self and while she felt the great pains of a sharp hunger this Virgin got Milk in her Paps and so found ease by sucking her self she did satisfie for proud Souls by applying her self to the worst way of common Begging and herein she had this comfort that when honest Men did give her Bread it tasted in her mouth like Bread otherwise it tasted like Toads flesh To expiate all sorts of Sins contracted by much company this Saint resolved to forsake Man-kind and to come near none but Beasts and at last that she might be the safer from all Contagion of Flesh and Blood she parch'd her self on the tops of Trees There her thin Body being made thinner both by continual Fasting and great fervency of Spirit she did at her Praier contract her self into a round form that was somwhat like a Hedg-hog She could climb up the highest Trees like a Squirrel and swim in Rivers like a Fish till her Friends barbarous it seems and not believing all these Miracles put her in Chains as a mad Woman and there she tore sadly her poor Body with strugling hard to free her self and this strugling in her Prison gave occasion to more Miracles for the Milk she

I take thee for my Dame and therefore I hereby do give and engage my self and my Soul to thy good Plesure That simple young Prince l Al. Gazaeus De Offic. M. p. 91. of Hungary said much less without Ring or Intention only reading of course the words of an Antiphone Thou m Stellar Beat. Virg. l. 12. c. 10. art fair and Beautiful c. This was enough for the Lady to make her come down to him and what said she if I am so fair why leavest thou me to take another Thus the young man being astonisht for he was in the Church already upon the very point of taking a wife at these words and deluded with fine Promises of becoming a great Monarch in this Devils Heavenly Kingdom left his other Bride at the Altar to the great scandal of all the world and to his own far greater shame Now commend me to such a Saint who can free men from just Promises and put asunder to some purpose them whom God would have join'd together If this instance be not enough Take this other from a grave Bishop n Vincent Bell. Specul Histor l. 7. c. 87. A young Gallant being about to play in a Place where the same Virgin had a Statue puts a Ring he had on its Finger and after he had don playing thinking to take his Ring again the Image had closed her Finger so being unwilling to struggle too much for t is not safe to be too bold with some Images he left it there and some few years after he happened to get an honest Match with a considerable Fortune but he is not sooner with her a Bed then presently another Bride fairer then she appears to him shews him his Ring which he had left on the Statue and as she took it had engaged himself to her with it before The man takes this for a Phantome and so it was and a devillish one too but when he thought again to sleep the same Lady comes in again but much more terrible then before and what with her angry look what with her fearful Threatnings for this Mother of Mercy will prove sometimes a dangerous Dame she frighted him away out of his Bed from his lawful Wife his good Estate into a pittiful Cloister Now to judg how grave and holy this is and how likely to come from a Saint compare it with this Parallel which I have o Matthaeus Westmonaster Flor. Hist. ad an 1058. from a good Author In the year 1058. a young Nobleman of Rome after a magnificent wedding Dinner goes with his Guests to Campus Martius and being at a hot Exercise puts his Ring into the finger of a stately brazen Image which stood hard by and had in former times bin consecrated to Venus an hour after my Gentleman being to return home goes for his Ring but the Statue had miraculously shut its hand so being loth to speak of it for fear of being laughed at by his Friends he leaves it there and when it was night coming back again with tools and men to get it off the hand was open but the Ring gon So the best he could make of a clear loss was to concele it and to go to Bed with his Bride As soon as they were in Bed he felt a big soft Bundle as it had bin a sack of Wool tumbling between them and hindering them from ever coming near one another he heard withal a voice Lie thou with me I am Venus whom thou hast taken to Wife this afternoon with this Ring which here is on my finger To make short the same both Bundle and Voice kept them ever asunder as often as they offered to touch one another till with the advice of their Friends they went to one named Palumbus a skilful Necromancer and Priest who for a good sum of Mony meeting the Devil in his own way got the Ring out of Venus hand These two Cases are so like that one might think them to have bin transcribed the one from the other the same manner of wedding Apparitions the same Correspondency and Proxiship between these Spirits and their Images the same Malice and opposition against Faith and Gods Ordinance the same base and low trifling beneath the condition of any Noble Creature Hereupon in Cases so like so unholy so ungodly so unseemly let the Church of Rome breed such fools as to think that the one can be a great Saint when the other is a downright Devil 2. In the second place comes the Baby whom most commonly you shall see doing some foolish thing or other upon the left Arm of this Dame For this little Image is known to act as many Parts as the great one can It weeps it prates it sings it turns its back it jumps from one hand to another it stretches out its little hand And whereas at first it was intended that this little thing should stand still as an Historical Memorial of Christs Birth it hath bin since these last Ages so well animated and warmed with the heat of Roman worship that it shews all the life and Activity sometimes that can be expected of a true natural Child besides what Juglers can do The inward Soul and Principle which actuates and moves this Image certainly cannot be a good Angel for good Angels are too serious for such mere Childish Motitions Good Angels in all the Scriptures since their Creation till Popery are not known to speak in Images and when they speak in any way they do neither lie nor blaspheme as this woodden pupet must needs whensoever he takes on himself the name of God Christ and Savior The true Mover and as it were the Soul of this Infantine Image can be no other then that Spirit which often in the Roman Church appears acting that by himself which he acts by his Image and none is fitter nor likelier to prate with a woodden Parrot then he that can do it with his own Lips For setting a side the little Image the Papists have a little God whom they call in English the Sweet Babe and more blasphemously in Latin Puer Jesus the Child Jesus and whom another Spirit under the name of Queen of Heaven in all great Apparitions carries commonly on her left Arm t Bened. Gonon ex Antiquo Cod. ad an 1285. and gives to many People u Flaminius in vita S. Cathar Bonon Menol. Cisterc. 29. Octob. Chronic. Deip. an 1508. Balinghem 17. Jun. to kiss to carry about x Gonon Patr. Occident l. 6. in vita Harman Praem as S. Joseph did to lay by them in their y Chronic. Deip. an 1561. beds S. Lucia z Chronic. Grdin Praedic an 1543. had him once three night and when S. Arnulphus a Chronic. Deip. an 1228. they say had him but a quarter of an hour he was so overcome with Joy that he was forced to give him back Sometimes this sweet Baby will leave his Mother and walk