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A29396	The school of the Eucharist established upon the miraculous respects and acknowledgments, which beasts, birds, and insects, upon several occasions, have rendred to the Holy Sacrament of the altar : whence Catholicks may increase in devotion towards this divine mystery, and hereticks find there their confusion / by F. Toussain Bridoul ... ; printed in French at Lille, 1672, and now made English, and published ; with a preface concerning the testimony of miracles.; Escole de l'Eucharistie. English	Bridoul, Toussaint, 1595-1672.; Clagett, William, 1646-1688.	1687 (1687)	Wing B4495; ESTC R9439	58,294	76

THE SCHOOL OF THE EUCHARIST ESTABLISHED Upon the Miraculous Respects and Acknowledgments which BEASTS BIRDS and INSECTS upon several Occasions have rendred to the HOLY SACRAMENT of the ALTAR Whence Catholicks may increase in Devotion towards this Divine Mystery and Hereticks find there their Confusion By F. Toussain Bridoul of the Society of Jesus Printed in French at Lille 1672. And now made English and published With a Preface concerning the Testimony of Miracles Let us view more particulary what Rational Grounds Catholicks exhibit of their belief of a Corporal presence in the Eucharist and so of Adoration Def. of Ador. of the Euch. p. 27. Printed at Oxford 1687. LONDON Printed for Randall Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1687. THE PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION Concerning the Testimony of MIRACLES IF the Doctrine of Transubstantiation wants the Authority of the Holy Scriptures it cannot be proved to come from Christ and his Apostles by Tradition unless the Fathers of the Primitive Church have conveyed it in their Writings If it has had no such Tradition then the best Church-Authority it has to rest upon will be that of the Lateran and Tridentine Synods And if they had no power to make new Articles of Faith this Doctrine is in no good case to recommend it self There are but two ways remaining I think to put it off one is to perswade us that our Learned Protestant Divines have several of them affirmed such things concerning the Real Presence as do amount to what the Papists mean by Transubstantiation and that they have laid down Principles which will save the Adoration of the Host from being an Idolatrous Worship And this is lately attempted with great appearance of Gravity by a certain Oxford Author But if this will not do there is yet another way left and that is to prove Transubstantiation and the Adoration of the Host by Miracles which has been undertaken as by several others so in particular by that Reverend Jesuit whose Collection is here Translated Our hands I perceive are now in about Transubstantiation and the Worship of the Host and the Divines have gone so far in considering all that can be said for these things that 't is pity the Controversy should not be ended all at once to which I think nothing is wanting but to represent our Adversaries Appeal to Miracles and that I suppose cannot be more fairly done than by exposing to our Countrymen what themselves have thought fit to publish in another Language concerning this Argument That nothing else remains is evident by what has been already done on † Discourse against Transubstant Doctrine of the Trin. and Transubstantiation compared in a New Dialogue 2 parts Transubst no Doctrine of the Primitive Fathers our side upon all the other Arguments and that as time will shew more fully beyond all possibility of Fair Reply I had almost forgot the desperate Defence of Transubstantiation which our Adversaries have lately made by fastning it to the Doctrine of the Trinity being for their parts content that both should sink if they could not swim together They are I hope convinced by this time that neither is their Point to be gained so and that we are able to maintain the Catholick Doctrine of the Trinity and at the same time to overthrow the Roman Doctrine of Transubstantiation That they cannot retreat for shelter to the Judgment of any Divines of this Church is now shewn in the Answer to the Oxford Author In short It has been * See Bellarm. de Sacr. Euch. l. 3. c. 23 and Discourse of Eucharist in Answer to the Book printed at Oxford p. 4. confessed by eminent men in the Roman Communion that the Scriptures do not oblige us to believe Transubstantiation and that the Fathers knew nothing of it has been confessed too by a ‡ Historical Treatise of Transubstant Learned Person of that Church now living and which is something more proved also through the First Ten Centuries Now whether Councils can make an Article of Faith of that Doctrine which is neither to be found in the Holy Scriptures nor can be defended by Testimonies of the Ancient Fathers but is in truth contrary to both I am very willing the Representer should determine * A Papist Misrepres and Repr p. 33. who tells us That he is obliged to believe nothing besides that which Christ taught and his Apostles and if any thing contrary to this should be defined and commanded to be believed even by ten thousand Councils he believes it damnable in any one to receive it and by such Decrees to make Additions to his Creed A great deal less than this if it had been said with more sincerity would have served our turn as well If Ten thousand Councils will not stir him in such a case methinks the Fourth Lateran and the Trent Councils the one a Western the other little more than an Italian Synod should not be able to do what Ten thousand Councils cannot do as for the Lateran it is yet a disputable point as * See Peter Walsh's Letter to the Bp. of Lincoln Sect. 22. some of themselves will have us believe whether the Council or rather the Pope only made the Decrees that bear its name and for the Tridentine Synod the World knows how it was from time to time influenced by the Court of Rome so that when the matter comes to be look'd into 't is indeed the Papal Authority that gives to the world this pretended Point of Faith but because certain Popes have miscarried in the Faith to the great discredit of St. Peter's Chair it was necessary that the Popes pleasure should upon all occasions of defining matters of Faith be a little disguised by being conveyed to the Church under the venerable name and Formality of a Council Transubstantiation then has nothing left to stand upon but Miracles which is as much as to say that it stands upon its last legs Bellarmine I find De Sacr. Euch. l. 3 c. 8. reserved this Argument for the last to prove the substantial Presence of Christs Body in the Eucharist I know not whether he thought it the best or no if he did I dare undertake to answer what he thought his best Argument and that by shewing that 't is none at all for if we are to trust the Old Miracles of Christ and his Apostles as without all question we ought to do then we are not to try Doctrines by new Miracles but rather to try the Miracles by the Old Doctrine Which one would think should have been a Rule to all Christians since our Blessed Saviour has warned us not to trust to Signs and Wonders Matth. xxiv 24 25 26. no tho they be Great ones Behold says he I have told you before Which Caution I must confess hath sometimes surprized me with astonishment when I consider what the Conclusion is for which according to our Blessed Lords Prediction Miracles should be pretended viz. to make us believe a

the Mother of God surrounded with a great company of Angels and Virgins and at her feet she lay prostrate the Virgin advised her to return thanks to her Son for the health that was restored to her and to let the Bishop know that it was her pleasure they should build a Church in that place for the invocation of her holy name and that he should translate thither the Episcopal See of Velay according to the advice she had given to S. George his Predecessor This being resolved S. Vossi went to Rome to get a License from the Pope where he arrived in the year 224. S. Calixtus who governed then received him courteously and agreeing to his requests gave him an Architect called Scutaire for to manage the work The Temple was in a short time finisht and erected with great firmness and perfection When the debate was about consecrating it the holy Bishop considering that he had no Relicks he concluded that he would return to Rome with Scutaire for to obtain them of the H. Father The Evening before they went away they took leave of the people and made fast all the Church doors the day following when they were near the River Loize a quarter of a League from the Town they met two venerable old men S. Vossi approaching them demanded of them whither they were going and what brought them into those quarters They answered We are Embassadors from the H. Pope of Rome sent to Bishop Vassi to bestow on him these two small Caskets full of holy Relicks The H. Bishop gave them thanks and intreated them that he might carry them up to the Mountain They answered that they had no intention to pass any further and at parting when they had delivered to them the Relicks with the Breviates yet further to confirm them in the truth of all they had said Know say they that when you shall arrive at the Church gates which you have firmly barred they will open to you of themselves and you shall find in the Church three hundred and twelve lighted Torches the Altar anointed and marked with Holy Oyle and you shall also hear the harmonious Songs of Angels and perceive a most sweet Odour Upon this they disappeared at their return to the Town the people had notice to be ready for a Procession and the H. Bishop barefoot and in his Pontifical Habits came with the people to Church which as soon as they approached the doors opened of themselves the Church was lightned with three hundred and twelve Torches with all the other circumstances marked by the two old men The Bishop approached to the Altar which he found anointed with H. Oyl upon which he placed the Holy Relicks After they had solemnly sung the Masse of Dedication he published and declared by the Authority of our H. Father the Pope that the Episcopal See was from thenceforth translated from the Old Town of Velay to the New place now called d' Anis and in Latine Anicium which is one of the most illustrious and ancient Churches of our Lady that is in Europe P. Odo Gisse in his History of our Lady du Puy Chenilles Caterpillars 3. Caterpillars revenge the injury done to the H. Sacrament A Priest exorcising one that was possessed demanded of the Devil why a woman whose name was Hardifa had been so grievously tormented by him She has well deserved it replied he for she hath sowed the most High upon her Coleworts The Priest not knowing what this meant and the Devil denying to give him any other answer he went to that other possessed person called Hardifa and told her the answer the Devil had made him which he did not at all understand I understand it well says Hardifa which yet I have never told to any Soul living You must know then said she that being very young I took upon me to look to the garden and making no profit of it because Caterpillars devoured all the herbs I learnt afterward of a wandring woman that for to remedy this I must break a consecrated Host in pieces and scatter them upon the herbs and they would spring up again I did so said she but to my own harm as you see Behold here what the Devil meant when he said She sowed the most High upon her herbs Caesarius l. 9. c. 9. Cheval A Horse 4. A Horse given to a Priest that carried the H. Sacrament to a sick person WE will give the first place to a Horse of Ralph Count de Haspurg and afterwards Emperour This Prince going a Hunting heard the little Bell ring as the Priest went with the H. Sacrament to a Sick person He thereupon turned back to meet the Priest and being come up to him he lighted from his horse and presented him to the Priest that he might pass over a Ford of the River himself following on foot When he had communicated the sick Person the Priest returned a horseback to his Church the Prince going all the while a foot The Priest paying due respects thanked Count Ralph and offered to return him his horse God forbid said the Prince that I should profane the horse which God has thus far consecrated by the Service he has done him My horse said he belongs to God and I give him to the Church When he had made this donation that the Church might not be burden'd with the necessary charges for his keeping the Prince setled a certain revenue to pay for the horses keeping and he made it perpetual as well for the providing horse-meat as for the purchasing another horse when he should fail for the Service of the Church P. Gualterus Paulus in suis de Euch. Rithmis 5. A Jews Horse pays respect to a Priest who went with the H. Sacrament to a sick person A Priest carrying the H. Sacrament met a Jew on horseback who endeavouring to get before his beast kneeled down bowing towards the H. Sacrament The Jew being in great disorder slackned his Rein and Spurred him hard But his horse would not stir till the Priest was gone by At the same time he heard a voice from Heaven which said Acknowledge thy Creator whom thou denyest to be born of the Virgin Mary The Jew making reflexion upon this foregoing action of his horse and this divine Voice was converted and baptized Prompt Disc exempl 32. 6. A Horse signifies to his Master that he should hear Masse before he went about his affairs A Person that was hard put to it to dispatch certain affairs was exhorted by some Clergy-men because it was Sunday to hear Masse before he took his journey he went indeed to Church to be present at Masse but through his earnest desire to dispatch his affairs he went away before it was ended He came home and got on horse-back but when he was upon going his horse would not stir either for beating or spurring This unusual obstinacy of his horse made the Master consider with himself upon this he alights returns to Church