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A77347	Saul and Samuel at Endor, or The new waies of salvation and service, which usually temt [sic] men to Rome, and detain them there Truly represented, and refuted. By Dan. Brevint, D.D. As also a brief account of R.F. his Missale vindicatum, or Vindication of the Roman Mass. By the same author.	Brevint, Daniel, 1616-1695.	1674 (1674)	Wing B4423; ESTC R212267	257,888	438

calls me an Ignorant For if an Ignorant can produce and prove such fowl Crimes against his Mass as I do in that Book which he rails at What could not a Learned Man do And what must he think of himself since all along his Book and mine he cannot answer an Idiot Instead of answering the Charge which being heavy and true as it is confounds his Mass even to Hell all he can do is to exalt it with vain clamors above the Sky and when this unhappy Diana stands accused of being nothing but Wood and Stone to spend himself in crying out She is a Goddess Act. 19.28 Yet in this Essay which is the main scope of his Book he falls short of what he aims at Among all the Fathers which he heaps up after Coccius one on another not one saies that Priests hold or give the true and natural Flesh of Christ otherwise then in Sacrament nor that they offer it up to God otherwise then in a commemorative Sacrifice which is the drift of the Roman Mass and the Point which he should make out But he musters out as many places as he can find that make any mention of Liturgy Oblation Holy Victime Incruental Sacrifice and Mass somtimes which no Protestants dispute against and whensoever he can lay hold of any such Expressions which he sees in my Book I am not unwilling to admit he thinks he hath done great matters Especially as soon as he can light upon the Priest-hood of Jesus Christ or the Blessed Communion if alluded to or compared with Melchisedec's Bread and Wine his mind runs out to Flesh and Blood And in this vain labor doth the poor Man spend his four first and longest Chapters His fifth About the necessity of Sacrifices stands for what no Man stands against to wit that Oblations Sacrifices must needs be had in the Christian Church The Question is Whether the present Roman Mass be one of them I have shewed by most necessary Evidences that it is a plain Sacrilege Abomination c. and R. F. cannot refute it His sixth Chapter comes somewhat closer to me and what he calls my two Inventions to exclude the Mass Sacrifice One is taken out of Heb. 7.9 c. and urg'd against all evasion in the 4th Chapter of my Book which the Gentleman is well pleased in a manner to pass by Bones too hard for weak teeth and which tho but thrown down in the way might make Mass-Priests tumble if they had not the wit to leap over them The second is about my quoting of S. Austin de Civit. Dei lib. 10. cap. 6. and Durand concerning that which he calls the lawful Mass Missa Legitima and the Sacrifice continuing in the Intercession of Christ Whereon I will say nothing to him but that he should have read what he carps at with some kind of attention rather then expose himself to the hazard of censuring me like one who had neither common sense nor Conscience His 7th Chapter contains for the most part a long and extraordinary Amazement why I should quote Bellarmin and the Schole-men since they are all against me and for Mass and herein the Gentleman seems to be so strangely perplexed about my foolish Impertinencies that it is charity to resolve him and to help him to understand that I make use of his Authors either to shew the world what fine Mysteries whereof Martin Luther and Calvin could not be the proper Witnesses are contained in his holy Mass or to convince him how this Babel confounds sometimes her own Builders or to some other good purpose that no wise man should wonder at But when he is pleased to think that I quote them fraudulently or that I have not read them at all till he can produce some clear Instance of this my fraudulent dealing I will leave him to his own thoughts His 8th Chapter is against two gross Mistakes which as he thinks I poor ignorant am fallen into 1. When I said somewhere they do Sacrifice Christ at Mass whereas they sacrifice his Flesh only 2. When I seem to be afraid lest the Body of Christ should suffer harm whensoever they throw it down to the ground or into sinks and privy Houses For the first I have some hope that the Council of Trent and Bellarmin whom I have there quoted to that purpose will in a great mesure protect me and tho they do not how comes this learned man to be ignorant of their commonly receiv'd Doctrine that the Body and Blood are not upon the Altar without the Soul and if the two former are there by the direct strength of the five consecrating words this follows them perpetually by a necessary Concomitance But as to my second mistake let him read the 7th Chapter of my Roman Missal and answer it Mean while I advise him not to make that honest Care which the Church doth prescribe sometimes of keeping consecrated things safe and decent a proof of transubstantiation lest his very Altars Images Crosses Patens Chalices Oiles and other hallowed Utensils which he would not thro negligence let fall to the ground have a worse luck and by his Transubstantiation among his wafers loose their substance His 9th Chapter is spent to prove that his Miracles about Mass grow not lesse for being many which no body for ought I know contends they do for they being nothing at all it matters not how little or big they are accounted to be And here the Gentleman having it seems little to do falls foul on my Folly for attributing these Miracles to the Priests power and not to God which I do no more then themselves and for bringing their Imaginary Christ from Heaven which is the English of their Adductive Motion At last he brings all to this Issue that St. Chrysostom and John Calvin make very much for these transubstantiating Miracles His 10th Chapter runs all along upon a more popular Error as if Christs true real Presence at the administration of his holy Mysteries were that very Presence which involves within its being all the aforesaid foolish Miracles and which when all is done proves nothing better as it were easie to demonstrate then a true real Absence Then he insists on Gods Power to prove the being of his Miracles and would fain have us to believe them upon their being not impossible on which ground a man would believe strange things however it is better to disbelieve them upon their being impertinent injurious to Christ as man and in point of Faith destitute of any the least ground in his Gospel In his 11 and 12 Chapters he makes it his whole business in behalf of the Absurdities which his Church takes for Mysteries to discredit Sense and Reason and rails bitterly against me as a scoffing jeering Buffoon for using them not as my chief Grounds and Treachers in Christian Religion for so far the Gentleman were right but as good subservient helps to defend it from his Follies the truth is

put them in again both so fast and so dexterously where they had bin that he was well of them ever after At another time she came to his Bed and finding him lying on that side where he had bin let Blood in the Arm she turned him upon the other and shew'd him how to lie and sleep without fear of farther danger If these evil Spirits dare thus appear under the name of Christs blessed Mother whereof Scripture gives no warning it is no wonder if they do it under the name of Christ himself after so many Prophecies It is not the true Christ certainly that being Immortal in Heaven comes down either at every Mass there to lie as if he were dead under the hand of any Priest or to shew tricks of Activity under the shape of a young Child and act among Nuns and Novices twenty silly Pranks in their Churches We are not bound to believe all but it were hard to believe nothing when so many and great Doctors and among them some great Saints too aver for truth one and the same thing One saies he hath seen this little Child creeping out s Matth. Paris in vita S. Godric at the mouth of a Crucifix 't is all that a Sparrow could do but the Devil can do much more and thence jumping into the Lap of an Image and thence flying up again the way that he came Another saies That St Ida t Menol. Cisters 29 Octob. had him and kissed him and embraced him ut sponsa sponsum that is as you may think as a young Wife kisses and embraces her young Husband The worst is that once when being to sing and by her order to stretch out her arm she was put to a great distress lest he should fall Cogitate c. Look to it my Lord saies the young Nun to the Baby for I must obey my Order but the Baby was a strong Child and so twisted himself about her neck that he had no need of her holding him till she had don with her Anthemn and so she took him in her Lap. St Agnes u Bov. 14. Annal. an 1317. n. 2. had him too witness the little Cross which in a loving way she stole at the same time out of his bosom And so had St Catharine of the Order of St. Clara x Flamin in vita S. Cathar being brought to her by his own Mother to kiss upon a Christmas Eve St Boniface y Henriquez Fascicul SS had him likewise brought to his Bed in Swadling-clothes by the same Dame As for St. Lucia of the Order of St Dominic z Chronic. Ord. Praedic she had him three daies and three nights during which time it is remarkable that the Virgin Maries Image had no Baby on its left Arm. At last Dominus Jesus the Lord Jesus God have mercy on the Blasphemer took her to Wife when he look'd as if he had bin but seven years old in the presence of all his Saints What shall I say of St. Hostradus and others who mistook these enchanting Devils for real Appearances of the Infant Christ and upon this Illusion a Henriquez 3. Jan. some did offer him as we do to Children something to eat some did take him b Chronic. Deip. an 1285. upon their knees others did c Ibid. an 1235. play with him and with St. John who was his Companion at it These few Instances may serve the turn to let pious Souls see with grief that as according to the Prophesies Jerusalem was troden and danced upon by ugly Owles and wild Satyrs Isa 13.21 So the Roman Church is made a Stage for vile Spirits to act upon If some say these were Visions I grant they were and Divelish ones too For where are the good Saints or Angels that will represent much lest act Christ and the Blessed Virgin under such shameful Personages If you are for sounder Miracles tho good Catholics must take these for very real and true ones or most of their Saints are but Cheats go to the Founders of their Orders you shall find about St. Francis d S. Bonavent In vita S. Francisci Sheep and Asses running to hear his Sermon Swine falling dead under his Curse for having hurt a poor Lamb all sorts of Cattel recovering with the Water he washt his feet in Women presently eas'd of the hardest Travel by applying to them some of the Hay which his Mule was used to eat This don go to St. Dominic you shall find him either at Mass e Joh. Gargo in vita S. Dominic ac Lipom. hanging in the Air like a Bird or at the Bed-side of a sick Woman transubstantiating Worms into Pearls or by the Water-side raising the River into a Flood or at his Devotions forcing the Devil to hold a light and to burn his Fingers in that Service or it may be changing the Sex of a young Girl into a Boy Lastly If you will know what Feats Women also can do sometimes read me but the Life f Tho Cantapr in vita S. Christinae ap Sur. Jun. an 1160. item Jacob. de Vitriaco in vita S. Mariae Oeigniar of Saint Christina to say nothing of St. Brigitta St. Juliana St. Clara Saint Vrsula with hundreds more known and famous in the Roman Church This great Saint arose from the dead twice before she died for good and all and so died thrice All her Life long she had a very extraordinary gift of Miracles for having taken upon her to save Souls from Purgatory by suffering here what they did there she loved to throw her self into all the hot Ovens or burning Fires she could find yet met with none that could burn her she would attone for Gluttons by resolving to starve her self and while she felt the great pains of a sharp hunger this Virgin got Milk in her Paps and so found ease by sucking her self she did satisfie for proud Souls by applying her self to the worst way of common Begging and herein she had this comfort that when honest Men did give her Bread it tasted in her mouth like Bread otherwise it tasted like Toads flesh To expiate all sorts of Sins contracted by much company this Saint resolved to forsake Man-kind and to come near none but Beasts and at last that she might be the safer from all Contagion of Flesh and Blood she parch'd her self on the tops of Trees There her thin Body being made thinner both by continual Fasting and great fervency of Spirit she did at her Praier contract her self into a round form that was somwhat like a Hedg-hog She could climb up the highest Trees like a Squirrel and swim in Rivers like a Fish till her Friends barbarous it seems and not believing all these Miracles put her in Chains as a mad Woman and there she tore sadly her poor Body with strugling hard to free her self and this strugling in her Prison gave occasion to more Miracles for the Milk she