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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46959	Purgatory prov'd by miracles collected out of Roman-Catholick authors : with some remarkable histories relating to British, English, and Irish saints : with a preface concerning the miracles.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing J837; ESTC R11404	43,137	48

Witness in a Process he had depending THE Reverend Father Ribadeneyra in his said Flowers of the Lives of the Saints does acquaint us in the Life of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr how that that the holy Bishop had bought for the benefit of his Church a piece of Land of a Rich man named Peter and had faithfully paid him the price of it but yet could not shew sufficient Evidences for the proof of the same The man that sold him this Land had now been dead three years And his Heirs for to please the King who bore a great enmity to the Saint and to make their benefit of so fair an occasion complained of the Bishop in a Juridical Court that he had seized upon an Inheritance that belonged to them The Business was brought to be examined before the King who finding that the Bishop wanted some necessary Writings and that the Witnesses for fear of his displeasure durst not inform the Court of the Truth condemned him to restore the Lands to Peter's Heirs as due and proper to them by right of Inheritance The Saint demanded three days for to bring Peter before them of whom he had bought the Land and who as we said had been dead and buried three years before They easily granted him his demand making a jest and sport of it But the Saint fasted watcht and pray'd with great fervour and instancy begging of our Lord That seeing the Cause was his and that it was he who was wronged and injured by that unjust Sentance he would be pleased to take the whole Business in hand and rise up in his own defence At the end of three days having offered up the Holy Sacrifice of Mass he went unto the Grave where Peter lay buried and made the Grave-stone be taken away and the Earth opened until the Body appeared Then touching the said Body with his Grosier-staff commanded Peter to rise At which instant the dead Body obeying the Voice of the living Saint Peter rose up and followed him to the Court where the King was accompanied with all his Nobles and Judges To whom St. Stanislaus spoke thus Look here is Peter of whom I bought the Land who having been dead is risen again and now standeth before you Ask of him if it be true that I paid him entirely that for which he sold and I bought that Land for the Church The man is sufficiently known his Grave is open It is God who raised him to life for the confirmation and assured proof of this Verity His Word ought to be a more certain and infallible Argument of it than all the Testimony of Witnesses or Evidence of Writings that can be alledged This so great and manifest a Miracle did extreamly daunt the Courage of the Bishop's Adversaries and struck them to the very heart so that they remained quite dumb and had not one word to say For Peter declared publickly the Truth and very gravely and seriously warned his Heirs to do Penance for this their sin and for having so much molested the holy Prelate contrary to all Equity and Iustice. St. Stanislaus offered Peter if he desired to remain some years in Life to obtain it for him of Almighty God. But he chose rather to return to his Grave and die again presently than to abide in so troublesome and dangerous a Life and told the Saint That he was in Purgatory and that yet he had something to suffer in satisfaction for the remnant of his sins and that he had rather be secure of his salvation although it were by undergoing the rest of the pain and torment due to his former sins than engage himself in the hazard and jeopardy by embarking anew to be tossed in the stormy and tempestuous Sea of this wicked World. That he begged of him to beseech our Lord to remit and pardon him the rest of his Punishment and to release him soon out of that Prison and bring him to enjoy his glory in the blessed company of Saints When he had said this St. Stanislaus accompanied him to the Grave and a multitude of people went along with them Peter laid himself down in his Tomb and composed himself for his last Rest and begging of all the Assembly for to recommend his Soul unto our Lord died the second time for to go to live eternally with Almighty God. St. Teresa by her Prayers rescues a Person out of Purgatory A Certain Gentleman who had given the Saint viz. Teresa an Inheritance for the founding of a Monastery in Valliodolid not long after suddenly fell sick and died and his Speech failing him he was not able to make a full Confession although he gave great signs of Contrition She hearing of his Death was much afflicted for him fearing lest perhaps his Soul was damned and as she was recommending him to God our Lord told her That his salvation had been in great danger and that he had shewed him mercy for the service he had done his Mother giving her a House for the building of a Monastery there of her Order and that he should come out of Purgatory when the first Mass should be said there and not before The Saint having heard this being so full of Charity as she was for that she had always before her Eyes the grievous pains that this Soul endured could find no repose until she had founded the Monastery And to the end that we might know of the compassion that our Lord has of the Souls that are in Purgatory and how pleasing and grateful that is unto him which is done for them himself one day seeing that the Saint by reason of certain Affairs which occurred made some delay to go to Valliodolid to found the said Monastery hastened her on as she was in Prayer bidding her to make hast away for that that Soul suffered much And all was fulfilled as had been revealed unto her for Mass being ended and the Saint approaching to receive the Holy Communion the Gentleman who had been Master of the House and Garden where she and her Companions now were appeared unto her with a glorious and chearful countenance and thanked her with joyned hands for that which she had done for his delivery out of Purgatory and after this he mounted up to Heaven A Vision of Purgatory Hell and Paradise A Certain Husbandman called Thurcillus living at Tidstude a Village in the Bishoprick of London a person very hospitable to his capacity while he was in his Field Iulianus the Hospitator appeared to him bidding him be ready at night when he would call upon him there being matters to be divinely shew'd him that were beyond the apprehensions of Humanity Accordingly he came and bidding Thurcillus to leave his Body to rest in his Bed for that his Soul was only to troop along with him Coming to about the middle of the World they entred into a glorious Then came an Adulterer and an Adulteress representing the very act of Copulation with the most filthy