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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30470	The story of Jetzer, taken out of Dr. G. Burnet's letters with a collection of miracles wrought by popish saints, during their lives, and after their deaths, out of their own authours, for information of all true-hearted Protestants : with a prefatory discourse, declaring the impossibility and folly of such vain impostures.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5927; ESTC R7486	47,653	43

merry and clothed with white raiment this is the place which is the receptacle of such souls as have continued to their death in the exercise of vertue but yet their works have not been of such perfection as to deserve their present admission into the Kingdom of Heaven yet all these in the day of Iudgment shall arrive unto the Vision of our Lord and the joys of his heavenly Kingdom But as for those who in their words works and thoughts have attained to perfection such as soon as they have left the body shall enter into that blessed Kingdom To the confines of which Kingdom that place pertains where thou sawest so great a Light and heardest so sweet Harmony and wast refreshed with so admirably sweet-smelling Odours Thou therefore having seen all these things must presently return to thy Body and again as formerly live among men If then hereafter thou wilt be diligent to examine all thine actions and to observe uprightness and simplicity in thy conversation and speeches thou also after death shalt receive a mansion among these joyfull troups of happy Spirits For I having departed for a time from thee did it to this end that I might see what would in the end become of thee When he had spoken thus to me I had a horrible aversion from returning to my Body being extremely delighted with the sweetness and beauty of that place which I saw and the happy society of the persons living in it Notwithstanding I had not the boldness to make any such request to my Guide And whilst I was busie in these thoughts I know not how I presently perceived that I was again alive among men Cr. p. 500. Saint Decumanus when his Head was cut from his Body the Trunk raising it self up took the Head which it carried from the place where it was slain to a Spring not far off which flowed with a most chrystalline Water in which with the Hands it washed the bloud away which Spring in reverend memory of the Saint is to this day called St. Decumanus's Spring near to which place the Body together with the Head was buried Cr. p. 526. In those days there was in the Territory of Worcester a certain place wholly uncultivated and almost unpassable by reason of Thorns and Briers growing thick there This place formerly called Homme was in succeeding times named Eovesham for the reason which I shall now declare St. Egwin had appointed four Sheepherds to feed their flocks about the said Wood for the sustenance of his Monks Now on a certain day it happened that one of the said Sheepherds named Eoves entring deeply into the midst of the Wood there appeared before him a certain most glorious Virgin attended by two others her Splendour darkened that of the Sun it self and her Beauty incomparably exceeded all worldly features she held in her Hand a Book out of which she with the other two Virgins sung Hymns of praise to God. The poor man dazled with this splendour upon which he durst not fix his eyes stood a while silent and trembling and presently after in great fear retired home and repairing to the Bishop acquainted him with this Vision The Holy Bishop considering the matter advisedly with himself on a certain day after he had fasted and prayed taking three companions with him went toward the place described by the Sheepherd walking all the way bare-foot praying and singing Psalms and commanding his attendents to stop at a distance he himself passed farther into the Wood and being come to the place he fell prostrate on the ground where with many sighs and tears he remained a good space imploring a mercifull regard from our Lord. After which he rose up from Prayer and immediately there appeared to him the three Virgins with the same Majesty and Glory as before among whom she who stood in the midst seemed more tall and resplendant than the other in pure whiteness infinitely excelling Lillies and in freshness Roses and from her proceeded a celestial and inestimable Odour she held in her hand a Book together with a golden Cross casting forth bright beams of light Now whilst he thought within himself that surely this was the Mother of our Lord the said glorious Virgin as it were approving such his inward pious cogitation stretching forth the said Cross gave him a Benediction with it and presently with that farewell disappeared The Holy man with great joy rendring thanks to God for this favour understood thereby that it was God's will that the same place should be consecrated to his Service and dedicated to the Honour of the Blessed Virgin Mother of our Lord. For during his former afflictions and persecutions he had made a Vow that if God would vouchsafe to give a prosperous end to his desires he would build a Church to his Service Hereupon without delay he cleansed the place began the work and shortly brought it to perfection Cr. p. 528. St. Egwin Bishop of Worcester undertook a painfull Pilgrimage to Rome thereby to satisfie for the offences of his People and withall to doe a rigorous Penance for some faults committed in his youth And to render his Pilgrimage more painfull he in the presence of a great multitude bound about his Legs certain Iron Chains and cast the Key which locked them together into the River of Avon publickly protesting that he would never esteem himself secure of the pardon of his sins till either the Key were restored to him or the Chains unloosed by a power supernatural Having with great pain performed his Voyage he at last arrived at Rome where whilst he was performing his Devotions in the Church of St. Peter his Servants going to the River's side to buy provision for their Master they found in a Fish's belly the Key which had formerly locked the Chains about his Legs which being brought to him he in the presence of a great multitude unlocked the said Chains So that he who before was looked upon as a Sinner was afterwards honoured as a Saint Cr. p. 528. In the year 711. when St. Swibert went into a certain Village to celebrate Mass a certain rich Man who had been a Pagan but converted and called Peter conducting a Cart laden with Materials for building a Monastery in the way by the malice of the Devil Peter fell from the Cart under the Wheels and was taken up dead having his Head and other Members grieviously wounded by occasion of which there assembled a great concourse of People when preparation was making for his Funerals St. Swibert came to the place and commanded the Body to be carried to his Cell which being done he with many sighs and tears poured forth his Prayers to restore to life the said Peter who was a Servant of his Monastery then rising up and kissing the Body immediately the dead Man revived and rose up perfectly whole insomuch as there was not left on his Body the least marks of any wounds nor no settling of any bloud Cr. p.

place where there was on our left hand a Valley of a vast depth and breadth and the length of it seemed infinite one side of this Valley was terrible with its burning flames and the other no less intolerable for the cold blasts hail and snow driving through it and both these places were full of mens Souls which seemed to be forcibly tossed from one side to the other for those which were in the fire not being able to endure its scorching leaped into the horrible cold and not finding ease there they leaped back into the unquenchable flames Having observed an infinite number of deformed souls thus tormented with an interchangeable vicissitude of tortures without any respite of ease I began to think that this place was surely Hell of whose intolerable torments I had oft heard Preachers speak But my Conductor who went before me answered these my thoughts saying Do not entertain such an imagination for this is not Hell as thou thinkest But when he saw me affrighted with so horrible a spectacle he conducted me leisurely somewhat farther where I saw all places round about me become obscure and at length filled with utter darkness Into which when we were entred the darkness was so thick that I could see nothing but the shape and vestment of my Conductor And as we went on farther in this shady darkness on a sudden there appeared before us frequent globes of hideous flames ascending out of a deep pit and again falling down into it When I was come thither presently my Guide vanished out of sight leaving me alone in the midst of this darkness and horrid spectacle But when the said Globes of Fire without any intermission mounted up and again fell down I perceive that they were full of humane Souls which like sparks of fire carried up by the smoak were sometimes cast upward and then drawn back by the vapours of fire Moreover an unexpressibly noisome stink belched out by those vapours filled all the dark spaces round about As I was thus standing still in a terrible fright being uncertain what to doe whither to go and what would be the end of all this I heard behind my back a most horrible noise as of persons wailing in unutterable misery and also at the same time I heard others loudly and scornfully laughing as the rude vulgar people are wont to do when they insult over their captive enemies When this noise came nearer to me I perceived a troup of wicked Spirits haling into the midst of that darkness the Souls of men which woefully cryed out whilst the others burst forth into laughters And among these Souls I could distinctly see one that was shaved like an Ecclesiastical person another was a Lay-man and a third was a Woman These unhappy Souls thus haled along by those spitefully malitious Spirits at length were plunged into the midst of that burning pit Into which after they were descended a good way I could no longer distinctly hear the wailing of Men and laughing of Devils but only had in mine ears remaining a confused promiscuous sound In the mean time certain obscure Spirits ascended out of that fire-vomiting pit which approached me on all sides and with flaming eyes and stinking fire issuing out of their mouths and nostrils vexed me grievously Moreover with fiery pincers which they held in their hands they threatened to catch me but for all that though they frighted me they had not the boldness to touch me Being thus on all sides encompassed with darkness and enemies I turned my eyes every way to see if there were any one to deliver me At last there appeared by the way which I had passed something that shone like a Star which increasing and approaching nearer and nearer as soon as it came to me all those hatefull Spirits which had endeavoured with their fiery pincers to lay hold on me were dispersed and fled Now he whose coming drove away these Spirits was the same who at first had been my Conductor who presently after turning his steps more southerly toward the East led me out of that darkness into a clear and lightsome air in which after we had walked a while I saw before us a mighty Wall of the length and highth whereof every way I could see no end I began then to marvel to what purpose we should go to that Wall in which I could discover neither door window nor any other passage but being come to it presently I know not by what means we found our selves on the top of it And there appeared to me a most large pleasant Field so replenished with all sorts of odoriferous Flowres that the sweet fragrancy of them immediately took away all the former stench of the dark fiery fornace and so great was the light there on all sides that it far exceeded the brightness of mid-day Moreover there were in that Field innumerable assemblies of men in pure white garments all rejoycing and singing Now as he led me among these happy Choires I began to think that this might be the Kingdom of Heaven which I had oft heard preached of but he again answered to my thought No this is not Heaven as thou supposest And as we passed on in our progress I saw before mine eyes a far greater and more pleasant Light than we had seen before and in that Light I heard most sweet melody of persons joyfully singing and so wonderfull a fragrancy of a most sweet odour issued from thence that the former sweetness which before seemed excessive to me now I very meanly esteemed as likewise the former Light compared with this appeared almost obscure Now when I was in a hopefull expectation that we should enter into this blessed place my Guide made a stop and presently turning his steps he led me back again the way that he had come And when in our return we were come to the joyfull mansions of those Inhabitants clothed in white garments he said to me Dost thou know what these things are which thou hast seen I answered No. He replied That Valley which thou sawest so terrible by the scorching flames and horrible frosts is the place in which those souls are to be tried and afflicted which having delayed to confess and amend their sins at the very point of death retire for safety to repentance and so depart out of the body These because even in the last moment of their lives they confessed and were contrite for their sins they shall at least in the day of Iudgment come to the Kingdom of Heaven and many of them before that day are eased and delivered by the Prayers Fasting and Alms of the Living and especially by the celebrating the most holy Sacrifice Moreover that flame-vomiting and stinking pit which thou sawest is the very Mouth of Hell into which whosoever once falls he shall never come out of it for all eternity As for this pleasant flowry field here before thine eyes in which thou seest such multitudes of youth making