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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44952	The triumphs of Rome over despised Protestancie	Hall, George, 1612?-1668.	1655 (1655)	Wing H337; ESTC R17440	89,326	154

of the Crosse made whole the poor womans egges that were all unhappily broken in her basket Can they shew us a St. Brendais that for seven yeares together celebrated his Easter upon a Whales back mistaken at first for an Island but when it was perceived St. Machu●es as happy was by his prayers fixed that Sea-monster for starting so as after that the same Saint travelled so far as to the earthly Paradise and as good luck was returned safely home But whether that Whale lay there lieger for the whole seven years together or whether it came kindly every Easter to seek and finde out St. Brendan and to offer the service of his back to so holy a purpose because the earth could not afford roome enough for that businesse truly I cannot shew you Can they produce us such a Saint as St. Fingare who sayling from Ireland upon a broad leafe into Cornwall in the disappointment of her shipping being martyred by the Tyrant carried her head in her armes just as the great French Saint did up to an hill not far off with intention to bury it there but hearing some unquiet Gossips scolding there brought it down into the vally and washing it in a Well that sprang up there purposely in the place quietly buried it and her selfe Now in my minde Dr. Picard●● of Paris the late ill-advised Editor of those uncouth relations of the Irish Saints with so great gravity and authority was much too blame to give the Hereticks such free leave to laugh at those too-admirable Stories which otherwise they might have perhaps passed over without any great change of countenance or at least with an easie smile whereas now they cannot but laugh a good at his so prodigal indulgence and prodigious faith Can you brag of a Saint Clare that stood still from holy Thursday in the afternoon till the Saturday Vespers in one place nihil perpendendo thinking of nothing wherein yet she had not so much patience as her Sister-Saint in Ireland who putting her hand out of her window had a Thrastle came and laid her egges in her hand where the good woman stood stock still till those egges were hatched and in all likelyhood stir'd not till the pretty Birds were fledge that she might not lose the fruit of so great a mercy In the meane time we must think the place was no lesse sweet then was the musick of that grateful Bird Can they shew us such a merciful Saint as the good Abbot of Willar who to save a poor big-bellied womans longing killed his Oxe and gave the poor soul a good peice of beefe thereof which yet was the next morning found alive soundly grazing in his pasture Can they tell us of such a Saint as the holy Bishop Everm●●dus of Raceburgh who thinking to lay his Mittins upon a spirgat on the wall left them hanging upon the Sun-beames right so as St. Bridget alike mistaking hanged her wet cloake Can they shew us such a Thaumaturgus as Fryar Conrade who raised five men from the dead or such a powerful Orator as Fryar Antony of Padua who finding his labour lost in converting the Hereticks went to the Sea side and called the Fishes together both small and great which in whole shoales assembled themselves and lifting up their heads above the water listened very attentively to his forcible perswasions and no doubt could not but be turned Catholiques as they plainly testifyed in their silence The successe whereof could not but stir envy in the peevish Hereticks who bidding the holy man to supper set before him a great ugly Toad urging him with that charge in the Gospel VVhatsoever shall be set before you eate but he did onely make the signe of the Crosse over it and it was suddainly turned into a goodly fat Capon piping hot from the spit Can they name us such a Favourite as Fryar Benedict of Aretium who having been much devoted to the blessed memory of the Prophet Daniel had a great minde to visit his Tombe in Babylon but being disheartened with the length of the Journy and the feare of the Dragon that keeps it one day as it happily fell out an huge great Dragon appeared to him and enwrapping him in the windings of his long-sweeping taile flew away with him roundly to Babylon was not his heart at his mouth think we the while and set him down faire and softly close by the Tombe aforesaid where he viewing that sacred Corps made so bold out of his deep devotion to borrow a finger of it to keep for a precious Relique When straightwayes up was he snatcht againe by that friendly Dragon and carried gently and safely to his old Cell Can they speak of such a Saint as Christina who dying in her childehood was kindely welcom'd into Heaven but was withal offered the choice whether of staying still there in happinesse or returning to the Earth again for her greater merits in delivering poor souls out of their Purgatory torments she like a most charitable Saint chooses the latter Down therefore she comes to this lower World where yet she so lives as not abiding the stench of the sinnes of men she makes her residence on high perching on the tops of the tallest Trees and the loftiest Pinacles and satisfies her hunger with the milk of her own breasts And why might not her Virginity afford her milk enough out of her own store Ask Dionysius the Carthusian else But not to instance in thousands Can they sample us with such a patterne of powerful Sanctity as blessed St. Francis Christs Standard-bearer as they stile him and Jesus typical Heaven and Earth are filled with astonishment at his wonders What should I talke of the petty miracles of the reclaiming of his Brother Wolfe and instructing of his Sister Sheep the obedience and homage done to him by the Foules of the Aire Fishes of the Sea and the Ants of the Earth or the Spider which he willingly swallowed down his throat at Masse creeping whole out of his thigh or water fetcht out of the Rock to satisfie the thirst of that honest man which had lent him his Asse or a lock of his haire laid in the crack of a riven Wall making up the breach without morter and a world of the like feates the History of his wonderful Conformities to Christ published lately with great authority by Bartolomaeus de Pesis doubts not to tell you that as he was conformed to Christ in his wounds so he transcended Christ in his miracles If our blessed Saviour turned some vessels of water into wine Francis turn'd a whole fountaine so if our Saviour raised some few from the dead he and his then-present retinue raised up no lesse then a thousand After his death by his merits he freed 1000. souls out of Purgatory as the Devil told a certain Baron living in the Alp●s and with that traine his soul was seen by