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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85652	The Holy life of Philip Nerius founder of the Congregation of the Oratory. To which is annexed a relation written by S. Augustine of the miracles in his dayes, wrought many of them in or near the city wherein he resided and well-known to him. And a relation of sundry miracles wrought at the monastery of Port-Royall in Paris, A.D. 1656. publikcly [sic] attested by many witnesses. / Translated out of a French copie published at Paris. 1656.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Gallonio, Antonio, d. 1605, attributed name.; Bacci, Pietro Giacomo.	1659 (1659)	Wing G181; Thomason E1727_1; ESTC R202153	262,742	449

M●morialls of those whom he crowned that so from the intimation of the very places themselves our devotion may rise higher to the enflaming our affection both to them whom we may imitate and toward him by whose assistance only we may so imitate them We therefore worship the Martyrs with that worship of love and communion wherein are honoured even in this life holy men of God whose hearts we perceive prepared unto the like sufferings for the Evangelicall Truth But those we worship so much the more devoutly by how much the more securely after so many hazards now safely passed over as also we praise them with so much more confident Elogies now victors in a more blessed life than yet conflicting still in this But we neither worship nor teach men to worship any but God with that worship termed in Greek Latria which cannot be expressed by one word in Latin being a service peculiarly due unto the Deity And seeing offering of sacrifice belongs to this worship whereby it becomes Idolatry in them that exhibit it to idols we offer no such thing at no hand nor enjoyn it to be offered either to any Martyr or any holy Soul or Angel but whosoever falls into this errour is reprehended by our sound doctrine either that he may be amended or that he may be avoided For the Saints themselves whether Men or Angels would not have that given unto them which they know to be due of right to God alone And de Verbis Apostoli Serm. 17. Perfectio tamen in hac vita non nulla est ad quam c. Yet some perfection there is also in this life to which the Holy Martyrs have attained And therefore Ecclesiasticall discipline as the faithfull know sheweth when in such places the Martyrs are rehearsed at Gods Altar there are no prayers made for them but for other dead who are commemorated prayer is made For it is an injurie to pray for a Martyr unto whose prayers we ought to be recommended for he hath resisted against sin even unto blood c. Also Tract 84. in Joann 15. 13. Hoc Beati Martyres c. This that is laying down their life the Blessed Martyrs with an enflamed affection have done whose Memories if we celebrate not in vain but repair to the Lords Table unto that Feast wherewith they were even saturated it is requisite that what they did so we likewise should prepare to do the like For therefore we do not commemorate them at the Holy Table in such manner as we do others that rest in peace so as to pray for them but that they rather might pray for us that we may follow their steps inasmuch as they have fulfilled that love then which Our Lord hath said greater could not be Ideo eos commemoramus saith he ut orent ipsi pro nobis Therefore the Father conceived the Martyrs to pray for those that thus commemorated them rather or more than for others who commemorated them not Else such their commemoration nothing availed for obtaining the Martyrs prayers whereas he saith here commemoramus ut But then that the Martyrs might pray for such as commemorated them more than for others they must have some knowledge of such their commemoration This shews therefore 1. that the Father thought that the Martyrs knew of such commemorations And again 2. that such our commemoration of the Martyrs that they might pray for us well consisted with our not sacrificing or offering to them or religiously invocating them as deities And this needeth not to seem strang in a Father whenas Charity grants that Invocatio civilis is lawfully used to a creature Chamier de cultu Creaturarum 2. Tom. 20. l. 6. c. Quo minus rogentur hoc est invocentur promiscue civiliter nihil obstat yet are they not invocated by the Priest that sacrificeth For he sacrificeth to God not them although at their Monuments because he is God's not their Priest And the sacrifice it self is the Body of Christ which is not offered to them because they themselves also are it Which of the two therefore should we rather believe working Miracles Those who would have themselves reputed for Gods by them for whom they do those things or those who do all that is done that men may believe in God which also Christ is Those who would have their religious rites to be their crimes or those who would not so much as have their vertues and praises to be our service of them but what ever is truly spoken in their praise all tend to his glory in whom they are praised For in the Lord are their soules praised Let us therefore credit them both speaking truth and working wonders And of that Truth this is the main that Christ rose from the dead and shewed the immortality of the Resurrection in his own flesh first of which he promised either in the beginning of the new world or in the end of this to make us partakers S. Aug. Epist 137. The Argument of the whole Epistle is this BOniface a Priest of S. Austins Co-fraternity complained of another young man of the same society one of a suspected fame that he had sollicited him to commit uncleaness with him Who by the Father questioned concerning it by recrimination charged Boniface with the same When the matter could on no side be proved or confuted by any evident argument Upon S. Austins motion and request both of them ingage to repair to the Monument of the Martyr Felix at Nola in Italy over against Hippo in Affrik that by some Miracle there this matter might come to be decided The Father was very carefull that so scandalous a busines should be managed with great secrecy But it notwithstanding spreading abroad he writes this exhortatory Epistle to the Clergy and the rest of the people of Hippo not to judge rashly nor yet for the offences of a few either to desist from holiness or suspect evill of others shewing that there never was any society of men so happy but some wickedness might get into it CVm enim ista me causa diu cruciasset c. This cause having long perplexed me so that I could not discover which way one of the two might be convicted although I rather inclined to believe the Presbyter c. I made choice of a middle way that both of them by joint agreement should bind themselves that they would take a journey to a holy place where the more dreadfull works of God might more easily discover every one's conscience that was unsound and either by some feare or punishment force them to a confession Indeed God is every where and he contained or included in no place who made all things and he is by true worshipers to be worshiped in spirit and in truth that so hearing in secret he may also in secret justify and crown them But as touching those things which are visibly made known to men who can search out his counsell why these Miracles are

of age was an eye-witness thereof When ever he addressed himself to the Pope fearing he might be surprised whilst he was with him he would say to his Sons Look that during the time I am with his Holiness I commit nothing preposterous or unbeseeming such a presence Some there were likewise that saw his whole body hoised up into the air among others Paulo Sfondrato Cardinall Priest of the Title of S. Cecily saw him raised up to the roof of his chamber at his Prayers a See the twentieth chapter of the Life of S. Teresa where she hath these words And so extream is the violence of these Rapts that many times I have endeavoured to resist them and have put all my strength to it and especially when they came upon me in publike and often also in private fearing lest I might be deceived but seldom could I prevaile and that also but very little And it cost me a very great deal of harrassing and toile to my self just so as if an ordinary person had been fighting with some strong Giant and afterward I should find my self very weary But at othertimes it was altogether impossible for me to hinder it for my Soul would be carried absolutely away and ordinarily even my head as it were after it yea and this sometimes so far as that my whole body would be transported so as to be raised up from the ground This last hath hapned rarely to me but once it was upon the very point to arrive whilst we all were assembled together in the Quire and I being then upon my knees and at the point of going to receive the blessed Sacrament it put me to an extreamity of trouble because it seemed to be a very extraordinary thing that instantly there would be much notice taken of it and so I commanded my religious women for at that time I was Prioress that they should not speak of it to any creature But at other times when I began to discern that our Lord was going about to do the same again and once in particular when divers principall Ladyes were present and it was upon the Feast of our Patron when there was a Sermon I did even spread my self all along upon the ground and though the religious women came then about me to keep my body down yet the thing was easily perceived Vpon this I humbly prayed our Lord in most particular manner that by no means he would do me any such favours as might carry any of these exterior demonstrations with them for already I was very weary of being continually so wary and watchfull over my self for that such kind of favours could not possibly be done me by his Divine Majesty but so that every body would come to know it And it seems that through his goodness he hath been pleased to hear my prayer for since that time I never had any Rapts of that kind and to that proportion but it is true that it is not long since I had the last Moreover when I endeavoured to hinder such a Rapt so strong a hand and power from under my feet seemed to lift me up that I know not what to compare it unto for it was done with much greater force than in those other things that belong to the Spirit and therefore I remained as it were bruised and dismembred with it which he as a spectator thereof related again to Pope Paul the V. Joh. Baptista Modius being sick and speechless so that they thought he would dye was visited by Philip who after some expressions of piety and affection retired to prayers in another private room At Midnight some of the house seeking for him whither he was gone found him in a Chamber his body elevated and darting forth Rayes of light they seeing This Bernardine Corona a Citizen of Rome others witnessed upon oath it shrieked out the rest at the noise hereof came running in and beheld him hoised up from the ground that his head almost touched the Ceiling casting a glittering brightness round about him Returning to his senses he visits the sick again as though nothing had interven'd and laying his hand on his head bad him Be of good chear for you shall not dy of this sickness He had scarce said so but the bed rid person recovered his speech spake to the B. man and within a few dayes after grew perfectly well He was once at Prayer in the Vatican before the H. Co●fessionall as they call it of the Prince of the Apostles when on a sudden he was seen upon his knees caught up into the air his body and habit remaining stil in the same posture as if he pray'd kneeling upon the earth till by degrees he came down and took his former place But fearing the praise of men he stole away thence privately that the like might not befall him again he was wont at his entrance into the Church with his Sons to rise up and to be gone so soon as ever he had kneeled He was seen as he said Mass not only in almost continuall Extasies but many times born up on high as the Religious women of Turris Speculorum had oft observed some of whom affirm that they have seen him taken up into the air four handfulls high A Girl likewise saw him lift up two handfuls from the ground who being somewhat silly turning to her Mother said See Mother the Priest is possest do you not mark how he is taken up on high who answered peace fool that Priest is a Saint and therefore is entranced thus Sulpitia Sirleta seeing the Servant of God raised about a handful from the steps of the Altar thought with her self Certainly this man is moved by some evill spirit but coming afterward to Confession to him and being ashamed and affraid to discover as much she begins in a low voice to mutter thus Father I said and her voice stopping there she uttered no more To whom Philip Go on thou Madling what troubles thee hast thou conceited any ill of me That is it replyed she What was it then said he Sulpitia answered Some three dayes since as you were saying Mass and I saw you lift up into the air at that he putting his finger to her mouth said Peace But she went on I said in my heart This man sure is led by some evill Spirit With that he smiled and told her 't is true daughter 't is true indeed I am moved by an evil Spirit Another time Aurelius Baccius of Siena beheld him with a celestiall splendour shining like a Crown about his head He was celebrating Mass at the high Altar and as he came to that part of the Canon where the Living are commemorated Aurelius saw him surrounded with a bright Glory like a Diadem and suspecting it might proceed from some indisposition of his sight to refresh them he diverted his eyes to some other obiect lest they should dazle and looking on Philip again sees him in like maner encompassed