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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