Miracles not ceas'd to His Grace George Duke of Buckingham &c., of his miraculous cure and of the rest of all the most wonderfull and glorious miracles and cures wrought by a Roman Catholick priest in and about the cities of London and Westminister, in the moneths of Iune and Iuly 1663, in confirmation of the holy Roman Catholick faith / by A.S.

CHAP. I.

To his Gnace George Buckingham, &c. of his miraculous Cure, &c.

1. BY a Fall from your Horse, my Lord, you have lost the use of your right Hand; but by the Prayers of a Roman Catholick Priest, with the sign of the Cross, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (when you vowed, and promised to God, that if he should restore you to your health again, you would be∣come a Roman Catholick) you were forth∣with perfectly Cured. Confiteantur Domino misericordiae ejus et mirabilia ejus fillius ho∣minum, Psal. 106. 9. Behold thou art made whole, sin no more, John 5. 14. Hitherto, my Lord, you have lived in Heresie and Sin, henceforth be converted, and godly given, and delay not, to pay and perform what you have vowed and promised to God: for An unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him, Eccles. 5. 3. And it were

much better for your Lordship not to have vowed at all, then not to perform after you have vowed. Pay then your vows, my Lord, else know that what happened to you in Body, is but a type or figure of what hereafter shall happen to your Soul; you shall be cast off your Horse, that is, your Soul shall be separated from your Body, and you shall lose the use of your right Hand, that is, your hope of everlasting bliss shall fade, and perish for ever. Per∣form therefore your promise, my Lord, (which you have confirmed with an Oath, no less then the holy and terrible Name of God) and sin no more, least some worse thing chance to thee, John 5. 14.

2. Sin is the cause of all infirmities, sin is the cause why some once perfectly cu∣red, do fall again into a greater relapse. When the unclean spirit departeth out of a Man, he wandreth through places without water, seek∣ing rest, and not finding, he saith, I will return into my House whence I departed, and when he is come, he findeth it swept with a Besome, and trimmed; then he goeth, and taketh seven other spirits worse then himself, and entring in they dwell there, and the last of that man is made worse then the first. Luke 11. so it is with infirmities, and this is the reason why ma∣ny who were sometimes cured by the man of God, are as ill now again, or perhaps

worse, then they were before. Therefore let such as received benefit by him give God thanks, pay their vows, and perform their promise to him, and sin no more; and so once made whole, they shall be pre∣served, and kept whole and sound, as long as it is to the glory of God, and good of their souls.

3. Were not ten made clean, and where are the nine, Luke 17. 17. How many tens? how many thousands ha's been made clean, and cured by this holy man to God? and how few of them returned to give glory and due thanks to God? Give glory then to God, my Lord, give glory to God and good example to others; be you this one of the ten that returns and give glory and due thanks to God for his benefits, become a good and holy Roman Catholick, accord∣ing to your promise, and so God will pro∣sper and bless your Grace. Amen.

4. For your scruples in matters of Faith, if your Grace have any, Read I beseech you, my Lord, my little Book, entituled The Reconciler of Religions; where I clearly prove, First, Tha•• the Roman Catholick Church is the onely true way to God, out of which no man can be saved: Secondly, That the Protestant or Sectarian Religion is but a meer cheat, a delusion, an heresie, an heathenisme: Thirdly, That the Ro∣man

Catholick Church is the insallible and inerrable Judge of all Controversies in matters of Faith: Fourthly, That the Pro∣testant or Sectarian Bible is not the Word of God more then the Alcaran of the Turks; and the old vulgar Latin Bible is defended: Fifthly, That the Protestant Bishops, Ministers, and Preachers are but Cheaters and Deluders, false Prophets, and Priests of Baal: Sixthly and lastly, All our Adversaries objections answered and confuted, to all which I suppose they will not answer in haste, otherwise then thou lyest Bellarmine, or some such way, which shall not be enough for me, nor I believe for any other sincere and reasonable man. In the mean time your Grace may be pleased to peruse this ensuing Challenge of (one of your own Ministers, lately con∣verted) Dr. Baylie, to all Schismaticks, Sectaries, and Hereticks whatsoever.