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truth_n	believe_v	delusion_n	unrighteousness_n	1,978	5	11.2673	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47042	Saint Patricks purgatory containing the description, originall, progresse, and demolition of that superstitious place / by Henry Jones ...	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.	1647 (1647)	Wing J946; ESTC R16600	121,914	152

Manes His ubi tum Natum Anchises unaque Sibillam Persequitur dictis portaque omittit Eburna Two gates of sleep there were of home one was By which men say true spirits use to passe The other made of purest Ivory Whence by the ghosts false dreams are sent on high Through this Anchises his discourse being done Dismist Sybilla and with her his sonne Thus have we seen neither can it be denyed but that this is one of the most pregnant proofes for this Purgatory the description of the place and the severall passages in the pilgrimage being so sutable To conclude then as in the former Chapter it appeared that the Reverence gained to this Purgatory did first proceed from him who was supposed the Author of it S. Patricke and yet with what uncertainty that could be beleeved was there shewed so here we finde it much more esteemed for it selfe out of the opinion of the strange effects of it Certainely strange if true and that accompanied with so many strange sights as were reported to be seene both strong motives to satisfie either Curiosity and Devotion all which granted what wonder was it to finde it so much looked after and so much flocked unto from farre and neare And yet with what foppery with how many contradictions with how great an heap of absurdities this was followed hath been in this Chapter considered So that again and again I say it it cannot be sufficiently admired that not onely the multitude but men otherwise rationall and learned should be so drawn on as to relish and digest such grosse Fables and Fooleries and still to reverence so poore and base a thing as this Cave is as if men were resolved to be missed or Not receiving the love of the Truth but holding it in unrighteousnesse God justly sending such strong delusions that should beleeve a lye But yet cannot we judge thus of all as if all of them had purposely shut their eyes and captivated their Iudgements so to be led on blind-foulded and against Reason to beleeve all reports concerning it For it cannot be thought that in so long a time and among so many thousands of Pilgrims there being so many eyes to pry into it it should be possible but that some more ingenious than others should at last discover the Imposture And therefore as this Purgatory did grow to that great height so did it groane under its own burthen being first discovered to some few after to all and lastly and that more than once deservedly demolished Of all which more fully in the following Chapter CHAP. III. How this Purgatory did begin to decline and fall from its esteeme being first suspected and found Fabulous and lastly quite demolished HAving formerly sought after the beginning of this Purgatory And after observed the Rising and increasing of it Order now leadeth to take notice of its continuance which if we should begin with the Time of Saint Patrickes converting this Kingdome Anno 432. unto which it is commonly referred with a supposed continuance thereof untill the yeare one thousand sixe hundred thirtie two the peryod of its dissolution It would make up a computation of one thousand two hundred yeares A time surely wonderfull if true for so grosse an Imposture to stand without discovery even potent States having suffered many alterations in a shorter time and among others none more than this Kingdome of Ireland which also maketh the matter yet more strange that this Cave should notwithstanding subsist a midst so many combustions But hee that shall observe the severall passages shall finde it to have its sencible declinings and that as it did please God to open the eyes of men and to disperse the mists of ignorance So that now by the full Sun-shine of the Gospell it is quite vanished without any memoriall which is the thing we are next to search after Neyther must the matter be so taken as if all this were done in an instant but as it did rise so fell it by certaine steps and degrees Yea the very rising not being without tottering and its progresse followed with a continuall staggering which notwithstanding it be evident out of what is before declared yet for the more cleare manifestation thereof I shall reduce all that hath beene said unto these three heads wherein as it were in one view the rising and falling thereof may at once be apparant The first step was out of the beliefe of having the Institution of it from Saint Patricke the Apostle of the Irish as being a meanes of the conversion of the Nation Which were it true deserved much of that respect and flooking unto it which hath beene afforded it and as a memorable and ancient monument and memoriall thereof ought it still to be preserved But this hath fayled it Saint Patrickes age would not owne it neyther had it a name for many ages even seven hundred yeares after And when in the yeare one thousand one hundred and forty it began to peepe up it would not be acknowledged by some eminent persons of that time by whom Henry of Saltry desired to bee informed of it whereas his Relators for it spake but by heare-say and so weake was the report that howsoever it seemed then to get head yet within fortie five yeares it is husht againe and no more newes for a while heard of it I meane in Iocelines times in the yeare one thousand one hundred eighty five of which before at large Secondly it having notwithstanding these rubs againe recovered its motion and gained a Name of throughly purging a penitent from all his sinnes in the Compasse of a naturall day where also strange sights of torments and joyes should be discovered to him by which meanes almost from all parts the concourse thither was so great as scarcely to be credited yet even in that very age was it as confidently rejected as a meere fable not consisting eyther with Reason or Religion as before wee heard out of Vincentius Belluacensis Anno 1240. being but one hundred yeares after that Henry of Saltry To which I will adde that of Bonaventure the Seraphicall Doctor within 25. yeares of Vincentius Anno 1265. esteeming it no other than a fable his words are these It is written that I Patrick obtayned that one should be punished in a certaine place within the Earth and from hence it was fabulously reported that Purgatory was in that place which to be meant of this Purgatory is by Gabriel Pennottus acknowledged by whom it is so farre stretched as to be a full casting off of all things delivered of it as Fables Truely faith he not withstanding that Bonaventure in 4. dist 20. par 1. quaest ult suspecteth all reported of the said Purgatory to be fabulous yet he saith that S. Patrick obtained that one should be punished in a certaine place of the earth out of which it was fabulously reported that Purgatory was there This you see is confessed but Pennottus his glosse