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A35963	Miracles not ceas'd to His Grace George Duke of Buckingham &c., of his miraculous cure and of the rest of all the most wonderfull and glorious miracles and cures wrought by a Roman Catholick priest in and about the cities of London and Westminister, in the moneths of Iune and Iuly 1663, in confirmation of the holy Roman Catholick faith / by A.S.	A. S.; Digby, John.; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1663 (1663)	Wing D1420; ESTC R26481	13,205	36

trye them by the Rules of the Catholick Faith Therefore they were to be tryed and so they were indeed tryed by the Rules of the Catholick Faith that is to say by a General Council approved by the Head and received by the Body of the Catholick Church and they were found guilty of Apostacie pertinacious error of going out of the Catholick Church and her religious Monasteries contrary to their Rules and Sacred Vows into the world of preaching new Doctrine prophesying falsely and consequently Anathematized and condemned for Hereticks they and all their followers according to that of the Galatians 1. 9. If any Evangelize unto you contrary to that you have received be he Anathema Therefore the Reformed or Protestant Church is not the Catholick The Independents the Anabaptists the Socinianists the Quakers and Shakers c. are also erroneous and new neither can they or the Reformed Church shew any continual and uninterrupted Succession of Bishops Pastours or Believers from Christ if they can let them produce it But the Romane Pontificial alone is old and alwaies remained since Christs time to this day without errour or interruption of Doctrine Bishops Pastours Believers c. and will to the consummation of the world what can all your learned Ministers answer to this Prot. I 'le warrant it our Ministers will answer them word by word Know Sir we have as learned Head-pieces of our Church as any in yours Cath. Who are these I pray you Prot. Dr. Pierce Mr. Calamy Mr. Gunning and divers others which will make nothing to answer these Cath. Alas good Sir lean not so much upon a broken stick I assure you that neither Pierce nor Calamy nor Gunning nor any cunning Sophister of them all nor all the Shismaticks and Sectaries and Hereticks in the world can refute these or answer them categoricè and clearly Prot. No Cath. No truly and if you do not believe me trye and then believe your self when you have found it true that I tell you 8. Prot. May it please you Sir to give me this Discourse in writing Cath. I will give it you even in writing though not the whole Discourse yet more of it then ever they will answer unto Prot. I thank you Sir if God bless me I will present it them Cath. Do so and if they cannot answer it in scriptis categoricè and clearly without any shifting and winding about leave them and become a Catholick Prot. I promise you by the grace of God I will and God forbid but I should For I think it neither Duty nor Devotion nor Discretion nor yet Religion nor Reason nor Right to be of a Church that is not alwaies able and ready to give a satisfactory answer to every man that asketh her a reason of the hope that is in her Whence I ask you also whether the Romane-Catholick Church can give me a satisfactory answer why She worshippeth Images prayeth to Saints prayeth for the Dead c. Cath. Yes that She can if true Scripture right Reason General Councils holy Fathers and the Consent of all Ages may satisfie you Prot. Say you so Cath. Come and see praIseD be the thrICe hoLy naMe of oVr IesVs AMEN Now let us come to the Miracles CHAP. IV. A Praeludium to the Miracles 1. ALL men naturally are moved in matters of Religion by Miracles nay some are so perverse that otherwise they cannot be moved Whence considering seriously with my self the perversness and height of Infidelity the Sectaries and Hereticks of this Nation are come to I alwaies thought it as it were needfull for their conversion to the true Religion that God should send some one thereof that would work Miracles before their faces Neither was I mistaken as it clearly appears for God who loveth the souls Sap. 11. 27. and willeth that all men be saved and come to the knowledg of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 4. of his infinite mercy and goodness was pleased to send them a Romane Catholick Priest who in confirmation of the holy Romane Catholick Church and of her Tenets and Doctrines was for the space of five weeks dayly working Miracles before their eyes and would be longer had not they repelled him and as it were judging themselves unworthy of eternal life commanded him away which the Turks or most barbarous Infidels would not have done yet England has done this evil 2. Mountebanks and Cheaters are permitted but the man of God must be repelled Foxes that is cunning Hereticks have holes and Birds of the air that is fantastical frentick mad Sectaries have nests in England but the man of God hath not whereupon to lay his head Not this man cry the Antichristian Pseudo-Bishops the Sons of Iniquity and Fathers of Mischief not this man but Barrabas Of the man of God then what shall be done Let him be banished cry they Blessed be God they did not cry Take him away Take him away Crucifie him they were though against their nature so civil as to conten● themselves with his Banishment onely Amaziah the Protestant Bishop said unto Amos the holy man of God O thou the Seer go flee thou away into the land of Iudah to Rome or amongst Romane Catholicks and there eat thy bread and prophesie or work wonders there But prophesie no more at Bethel at London or amongst Hereticks for it is the King's Chappel and it is the King's Court. So the Protestant Bible Amos 7. 12 13. But ours hath it somewhat otherwise and adds Amos answered and said unto Amasias c. Thou saist thou shalt not prophesie upon Israel that is upon the Tribes of Israel that fell from Iuda that is to say upon Schismaticks Sectaries and Hereticks that fell from the Romane Catholick Church and thou shalt not still upon or preach unto the House of the Idol in Hebr. it is Risus that is to say upon the Idolatrous and ridiculous Protestant Religion See 3 Regum 12. 26 c. usque ad finem For which thus saith the Lord Thy Wife c. Amos 7. 16 17. He must be banisht then and why What harm has he done Because he is contrary to the Protestant Bishops the rebellious and idolatrous Priests of Bethel because he is holy they wicked because he would convert the Nation to God they would keep it in flavery to the Divel because he works Miracles they can work none He must go therefore he is gone then blessed be God even while they were consulting and saying What shall we do for this man doth many Miracles He is gone even before they remembred if we let him go so all will believe and be converted by him and the Roman Catholick Bishops shall come and take both our Place and our Dignity which we have wrongfully kept from them almost this hundred years He is gone then 3. Notwithstanding good God hath done his work and his Servant whom he hath sent hath also in an high degree finished his course for even in the space of those five weeks

former Church is broken and dissolved If ever the Church of Rome divided her self by Schism from any other Body of faithful Christians brake Communion or went forth from the society of any elder Church I pray satisfie me to these particulars 1. Whose company did she leave 2. From whom did she go 3. Where was the true Church that she did forsake For it appears a little strange to me that a Church should be counted schismatical when there cannot be assigned another Church different from her which from age to age hath continued visible from whence she departed CHAP. III. A Dialogue between a Catholick and a Protestant concerning Religion 1. IT happened on a time that a certain Roman-Catholick and a Protestant discoursing together of Religion after many words changed concluded in this manner following Catholick Do you believe in God the Father Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord Protestant I do Cath. Do you believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholick Church Prot. I do Cath. Why then would you not hear and obey the Holy Catholick Church as Christ and his Father under pain of eternal damnation commands thee Do you not know that the Scripture affirmeth It is not every man that saith Lord Lord to Christ shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but he that doth the will of his Father Matth. 7. 21. But the Will of the Father is that every man hear Christ. This is my beloved Son him hear ye Matth. 17 5. Therefore every man that heareth not Christ shall not enter into the Kingdome of Heaven But Christ willeth and commandeth that every man hear the Church Mat. 18. 17. He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent Luc. 10. 16. He that heareth not the Church let him be unto thee as an Heathen and Publican Mat. 18. 17. Therefore every man that heareth not the Church shall not enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Why then I say would you not hear and obey the Church which is always Holy and Catholick why would you not believe all whatsoever she proposeth to be believed why forsake you her why follow you the Protestant 2. Prot. I do hear and obey the Catholick Church I believe all whatsoever she proposeth to be believed I forsake her not I follow the Protestant because this is the Catholick Church Cath. How can you prove that the Protestant Church is the Catholick Church Prot. I must confess though I have not sufficient learning to prove it yet I have faith enough to believe it because our learned Ministers tell us so Cath. You cannot tell but your learned Ministers may be mistaken Prot. Neither can you prove they are mistaken Cath. Yes I can Prot. How I pray you 3. Cath. Very well because there is but one Catholick Church that is to say one Church which is universal for time place and believers Luk. 1. 33. Mark 16. 15. which is the faithfull people dispersed throughout the world St Augustin in Psalm 149. which is the Light of the world and a City built upon a Mountain that cannot be hid Matth. 5. 14. and consequently visible and known and easily discerned from Turks and Jewes and Heathens and Hereticks even by her name But this Catholick Church is the Romane Pontificial for Shee alone is the visible and known universal Church for time place and believers All the rest are not universal for time place nor believers for they began of late they are but in few places they are but on handfull in respect of the Catholick Church Therefore they are mistaken that tell you She is the Protestant 4. Moreover if the visible and known Catholick Church cannot fail or err in matters of Faith She must have alwaies remained since Christs time to this day without interruption and errour But the visible and known Catholick Church cannot fail or err in matters of Faith for She is alwaies Holy I believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholick Church The Apostles Creed She is the spotless Spouse of Christ Hos. 2. 9. with which her Head and spouse and the Spirit of Truth abides for ever Matth. 28. 20. John 14. 16. The pillar and firmament of Truth 1 Tim. 3. 15. and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against her Matth. 16. 18. Therefore She must have alwaies remained since Christs time to this day without interruption errour Otherwise we could have nothing sure But no ●ther visible Catholick Church remained since Christs time to this day without interruption and errour but the Romane Pontificial Therefore the Romane Pontificial alone is the visible and known Catholick Church 5. If any can say that the Romane Pontificial Church hath not alwaies remained since Christs time to this day without interruption and errour let him tell when was the Succession of her Bishops Pastours and Believers interrupted or when and wherein did She err what general Council condemned her what holy Father wrote against her Or that there remained any other visible Church on earth since Christs time to this day without interruption and errour Let him tell what was She what is She where was she where is She what is her name what Bishops and Pastours had She or as yet hath She what Emperours or Kings did adhere unto her or now do what General Councils did She hold what Hereticks did She condemn what Academies did She confirm what Churches Monasteries and Hospitals did She build c. Sure the Greek Church or Churches have not alwaies remained since Christs time to this day without interruption witness the world nor yet without errour for they Heretically deny the Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son c. The Lutheran and Calvinian Church which they call Reformed is erroneous and new for it began with the Reformation from whence it hath its name which was done by Luther and Calvin as their Followers gloriously averr But I ask them that so glory in this Reformation were not Luther and Calvin when they first boasted of the Spirit and began to reform the Church were they not I say then to be tryed Prot. They needed no tryal for their Spirit was of God Cath. How do you know their Spirit was of God or how can you make this appear Prot. I know it very well and though I cannot make it appear yet our learned Ministers can sufficiently prove it Cath. They never yet could prove it nor ever shall we defie them and suppose their Spirit were from God yet still they were to be tryed according to the Scripture 1 John 4. 1. Beloved believe not every Spirit but trye the Spirits whether they are of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world Upon which words even your own newest Bible in the Argument of this Chapter saith He warneth them not to believe all Teachers who boast of the Spirit but to