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spirit_n	call_v	holy_a	john_n	6,642	5	6.1656	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48622	Miracles of the B. Virgin, or, An historical account of the original, and stupendious performances of the image entituled, Our Blessed Lady of Halle viz. restoring the dead to life, healing the sick, delivering of captives, &c. / written originally in Latin, by Justus Lipsius ; afterwards translated into French, then into Dutch, and now rendred into English.; Diva virgo Hallensis. English	Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.	1688 (1688)	Wing L2361; ESTC R16234	21,245	40

persons uneoncerned was acceptable to the Holy Mother of God and found a return of Mercy for the Carman came to himself and a little while after unloaded his Cart. He also went to Halle to thank our Lady for this benefit This Carmans mean Cart by this Miracle was rendred more Illustrious than the Triumphant Chariots of Rome CHAP. XXII A Person preserved from several dangers in and after Battel WHat will you see in the Shunamite but Hymns of Armies said the Bridegroom that is Thanksgivings to the B. Virgin for Victories and deliverance from Dangers in the midst of Enemies A Wonderful History which was acted in Picardy will confirm this The Earl of St. Paul famous of that time for his Valour and Noble Descent was to go from Chastelet to Campaign to the Daulphin of France There being then War between the French and the English on a Saturday in the morning he sent his Cook Steward and Quarter-Master to provide Lodging and to prepare for his Reception These three discovered a Party of the Enemy sixty or seventy in number that were stealing the Cattel They returned speedily and advertis'd the Earl of the danger he being a stout man caused his men immediately to Arm themselves and mount their Horses he being the most forward rid out before with John de Gertru a trusty Servant in such haste that John was not well Armed the rest followed them by one or two at a time their whole number being about Eighty They pursued the Enemy but they found them together with those which came out of their Ambuscade to be 1500 strong John first perceived their number and desired his Master who burned to fight them to return whilst he would detain them with Skirmishing The Earl would not consent to that but fell upon them and they upon him John was shot in his Arm by two Cross-Bow Arrows and looking about him once more to admonish his Lord a third Arrow hit him on the Head upon which he fell from his Horse The Earl seeing that the Enemy was too unequal and knowing that delay would but inflame the Enemy put spur to his Horse and endeavour'd to reach the next Town The Earl here was troubled at nothing so much as the loss of such a trusty Servant thinking that he certainly dy'd of those three wounds but the goodness of God and the mercy of the B. Virgin preserved him contrary to all expectation yea even beyond belief for whilst he lay among the men and horses he had continually in his mouth the B. Virgin of Halle praying that she who assisted so many would not forsake him in this apparent danger he crept upon his hands and seet unto the next way where he lay very feeble Here again arose a new difficulty for three of the Enemies party came to plunder the Dead and finding this miserable Man they took his Money Rings and Cloathes and cleaved his Head with a Sword. Being thus wounded he still retained his life and hope again beseeching the B. Virgin as also St. Barbara that they would be so gracious as to afford him an opportunity of Confession This Prayer so moved the Souldiers themselves that they served him in this request for they seeing by chance a Priest called him to the wounded person that he should prepare him for death for they intended to kill him As it also happened afterwards one of them endeavouring to cut his Throat but the B. Virgin so averted the Blade that only the Coller of his Shirt was cut The Priest did his best endeavour to beg his life of them whereupon the Souldiers retired and the Priest got him to an adjacent Barn dressing his wounds as much as the time would permit There came also another Party of the Enemy but there was amongst them some Honourable Souldiers and Commanders but they did not meddle with them At the approach of these the Priest had run away After they were gone the three Villains came again and seeing him alive struck him a very hard blow by which they thought they had killed him as indeed they had without the assistance of the Mother of God. Going on their way they drew the body in a great rage to the River The B. Virgin comforted him and advised him to seign himself dead here they threw him into the Water and because they would be sure to kill him they pricked him with a Lance. The B. Virgin also averted this push and carried her Servant unto a small dirty Island that jets its Head a little above Water where he lay three hours the coldness of the water and his loss of blood by nine mortal Wounds rendred him quite stiff The Priest which had heard his Confession like a good Samaritan out of compassion went to seek him and following the track of his blood came to the water where to his great grief he could not find him I desire that the Courteous Reader would not be offended with the length of this Relation but that he would please to search after and exalt the powerful arm of the B. Virgin Mary with Patience and Astonishment The Priest standing here comfortless cast his eyes towards the little Island where he saw something but he could not discern whether it was a man or some evil Spirits arming himself with the sign of the Holy Cross he called aloud I conjure you in Gods Name if you are a Christian to speak or make some sign Hereupon John lifted up his arm and satisfied the Priest who went up to the Neck in water and brought him to a dry place and immediately run to the next Town to procure a Wagon and some men to carry him thither where he was cured and came in person to the B. Virgin of Halle with his mouth full of Thanksgiving and yet the thanks was beneath the benefit which he received for he was four times preserved from death and consequently gained four lives CHAP. XXIII A Gentleman was delivered out of Prison PHilip of Cleve a young Gentleman naturallly though illegally descended from that Illustrious House lived at Dijon in Burgundy and was very much addicted to War and Arms but he was not so fortunate as valiant for he was taken by the French and imprisoned at Vaucouleur in Lorrain in a Tower 80 Cubits high his Ransom being a Gentleman was 500 Crowns which being too great a summ for his Estate caused in him not only a grief of mind but a bodily disease also Once when his dinner was brought unto him he fell into a sweet sleep which continued until the next day at Noon and then he was awaked by the Keeper of the Prison who admonished him to eat the portion of Meat which was allotted him but the delight which he had received from a Vision in his sleep averted his appetite from it His Vision was as followeth He thought that he saw himself lying upon the steps of our Ladys Chappel pouring his fervent prayers out before her Image which were