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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

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much merit After devout Salutations and good Discourse the same Man of God gave to St. Patrick a Staff which he seriously affirmed had been bestowed on him immediately by the hand of our Lord Iesus himself who had appeared to him Now there were in the same Island at some distance other Men also who liv'd solitary Lives Of which some seem'd very fresh and youthful others were decrepid old Men● St. Patrick after some conversation with them was informed that those very old Men were Children to those who appeared so youthful At which being astonish'd and enquiring the occasion of so great a Miracle they thus acquainted him saying We from our Childhood by Divine Grace have been much addicted to Works of Mercy so that our Doors were always open to all Travellers which demanded Meat or Lodging On a certain Night it hapned that a Stranger having a Staff in his hand was entertain'd by us whom we used with all the Courtesie we could On the Morning after he gave us his Benediction and said I am Jesus Christ My Members you have hitherto oft ministred to and this Night entertain'd me in my own Person After this he gave the Staff which he had in his hand to a Man of God our Father both spiritually and carnally commanding him to keep it till in succeeding times a certain Stranger named Patrick should come to visit him and to him he should give it Having said this he presently ascended into Heaven And from that day we have remained in the same state of youthful Comliness and Vigour to this hour Whereas our Children who then were little Infants are now as you see become decrepid old Men. Farther in the vulgar Opinion with this Staff St. Patrick cast out of the Island all Venomous Beasts St. Patrick landed in the Province of Lenster in the Year 432. where having converted Sinel the Son of Finchado he directed his Journey into Ulster where one Dicon coming suddenly with Weapons intended to kill the Saint and his Companions But as soon as he saw the Holy Bishop's face he felt compunction in his heart led the Saint to his House had the Faith of Christ preacht to him and was converted While St. Patrick remain'd in Ireland the Holy Son of God shew'd him a Den into which whosoever entred and staid there the space of one Day and Night he was purged from all the Sins he had committed in his whole Life and continuing in the Love of God he might see all the Torments of the Wicked and the Joys of the Blessed And long after him an Irish Soldier in the Reign of King Stephen entred this Purgatory of St. Patrick saw all the Punishments there inflicted and had also a full view of the Terrestrial Paradise which Man lost by his Fall And at his return to Earth again gave the King a perfect Account of those Regions After eight years labouring in our Lord's Vineyard in Ireland to the Conversion of that Island St. Patrick return'd to Britany and so went on to Rome there to give an Account of his Apostleship At his return thence to his Native Countrey he retired to Glastenbury where he foretold with the Tongue and Spirit of Prophecy many unfortunate and many prosperous things which in ●uture times should befall Britany and moreover foresaw and foretold the Sanctity of St. David who was in his Mother 's Womb. And at last yielded to Nature in the thirty ninth year after his return to the said Island and was buried in the Old Church on the Right hand of the Altar by Direction of an Angel a great flame likewise in the sight of all breaking forth in the same place He lived one hundred and eleven years Certain Irish Saints that performed Wonderful Conversions St. Rioch entertained St. AEdus the Bishop and set a great Supper of Flesh before him but the Bishop would not eat Flesh but blessing the Meat it was turned into Bread and Fish and Honey And in the Life of St. Moedoc we are told That when St. Molua had killed a fat Calf for to receive him hearing that St. Moedoc did not eat Flesh he blessed eight pieces of Flesh and they became eight Fishes but the Bishop knowing by Inspiration how they were made Fishes he blessed them again and they were turned again into eight pieces of Flesh which St. Malua seeing he was displeased for he had no other Fishes in his Monastery and therefore before them all he blessed them again and they became right Fishes the second time and here the Contest ceased and for the Honour of St. Molua he was contented to seed upon them FINIS Some Books lately printed for R. Baldwin THE Tryal of Philip Stansfield Son to Sir Iames Stansfield of New-Milns for the murther of his Father and other Crimes Libell'd against him Feb. 7. 1688. The Revolter A Tragi-comedy Acted between the Hind and Panther and Religio Laici c. An Historical Relation of several Great and Learned Romanists who did embrace the Protestant Religion with the Reasons of their Change delivered in their own Words Collected chiefly from the most Eminent Historians of the Roman Persuasion to which is added a Catalogue of several Great Persons of the Roman Catholick Religion who hath all along oppos'd the Tenets of the Church of Rome A Letter of Advice to a Young Lady being Motives and Directions to establish her in the Protestant Religion written by a Person of Honour and made publick for the use of that Sex. A Seasonable Collection of Plain Texts of Scripture in words at length against several Points in the Romish Religion for the Use of English Protestants Trid. Catech Sub Artic. Symbol descendit ad Inferos Sect. 5. Flowers of the Lives of the Saints p. 223. The Flowers of the Lives of the Saints p. 324. The Flowers of the Lives of the Saints p. 793. Matt. Paris F. 181. The Flowers of the Lives of the Saints p. 828. Flowers of the Lives of the Saints p. 830. Flowers of the Lives of the Saints P. 856. * Part 4. Sum Major tit 14. ca. 10. de Septemp Purg. Sect. 7. * Sermones discipuli de tempore de sanctis promptu●rio exemplorum in the 160 Serm. of the Souls Of Prayer for Souls Departed P. 211. Eldred In vit Ed. Confess Cressey's Ch. Hist. p. 30● Malms de Gest. Pontific L. 2. P. 350. F. Cressy's Church History p. 876. Sarisbury Breviary Lesson ●● F. Cressy's Church History p. 842. Bolland● in vita ejus ad Jan 7. p. ●84 Malmsbur de Pontif. L. 4. Ap. Capgrav S. Wereburga Ap. Capgrav In Iustiniano Baron ad A. D. 653. Harcus in Martyrolog 7. Octob. Capgrav in S. Ositha Martyrolog Gall 4. Novemb. Ap. Capgrav in S. Claro A. D. 706. Martyr Angl. 27. August Capgrav in vit S. Decumani Ap. Capgrav Colganus vita Finniani 23 Febr. p. 395. Father Cressy's Church-History l. 13. c. 18. B. l. ● c. 2. The state of Church Affairs in this Island under British Kings The state of Church Affairs in this Island under the British Kings P. 115 London● Printed by N. Thomps 1687 The state of Church Affairs under the British Kings p. 138. Ib. p. 141. Ib. p. 146. Act. Sanctor Mart. 3. p. 25. Bull. Act. Sanct. in vit Genulph ad Jan. 17. The State of Church Affairs in this Island under British Kings p. 89. L. Herbert's History of Henry the Eighth p. 494. Genoni Chronicon SS Dei parve p. 177. Gonon Ibid. p. 176. Wickman's Sabbatismus Marianus p. 73. Polyd. Virgil. Angli Hist. Lib. 13. Hoveden● Hist. p. 299. Antonin Hist. To. 2. p. 70● Antonin Hist. To. 2. p. 706. Harpsfields's Hist. Eccl. Angl. p. 334. Capgrave in the Life of St. Thomas f 292. Hoveden Hist. p. 299. Caesarius Dialog dist 8. c. 70. Festiv fol. 80. Antoninus loc citat p. 707. Lambert's Peramb of Kent p. 143. Antoninus Ibid. Capgr vit St. Cuthbert fol. 78. W. Sumner Antiq. of Canter p. 249. Cited by Foulis History of Popish Treasons c. p. 17. Brev. Roman antiq lect 9. * Membris genitalibus privati Stanihur●t ap Haraeum 17. Mart. St. Beda Antiq. Glu●●on in Patricio Horaevas in Patricio Iocelin in vit S. Patricii c. 13. In Antiq. Glaston in Patricio Stanihurst in vit S. Patric Ap. Capgrav in S. Patricio Iocelin in vit S. Patricii c 26. Girald Cambrens in topograph l. 34. Matt. Paris fol. 73. Capgrave in Patric Jocelin in Patricio Anti● Glaston in Patricio Gul. Malmsbu Avam de Domerham Joan. Monachu● Colganus ad 6 Feb. in vitam St. Riochi per 268. Colganus Act Sanct. Hibern ad ●ac 31. p. 221.