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. IV.

A Praeludium to the Miracles.

1. ALL men naturally are moved in matters of Religion, by Miracles; nay some are so perverse, that otherwise they cannot be moved. Whence considering seriously with my self the perversness and height of Infidelity the Sectaries and He∣reticks of this Nation are come to, I al∣waies thought it (as it were) needfull for their conversion to the true Religion, that God should send some one thereof that would work Miracles before their faces. Neither was I mistaken, as it clearly ap∣pears; for God (who loveth the souls, Sap. 11. 27. and willeth that all men be saved, and come to the knowledg of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 4.) of his infinite mercy and goodness, was pleased to send them a Romane Catholick

Priest, who, in confirmation of the holy Romane Catholick Church, and of her Tenets and Doctrines, was for the space of five weeks dayly working Miracles before their eyes; and would be longer, had not they repelled him, and as it were judging themselves unworthy of eternal life com∣manded him away; which the Turks or most barbarous Infidels would not have done, yet England has done this evil.

2. Mountebanks and Cheaters are per∣mitted, but the man of God must be re∣pelled. Foxes, that is, cunning Hereticks, have holes; and Birds of the air, that is, fantastical, frentick, mad Sectaries have nests in England, but the man of God hath not whereupon to lay his head. Not this man (cry the Antichristian Pseudo-Bishops, the Sons of Iniquity, and Fathers of Mis∣chief) not this man, but Barrabas. Of the man of God then what shall be done? Let him be banished, cry they. Blessed be God, they did not cry, Take him away, Take him away, Crucifie him; they were (though against their nature) so civil, as to conten•• themselves with his Banishment onely. Amaziah (the Protestant Bishop) said unto Amos (the holy man of God) O thou the Seer, go flee thou away into the land of Iudah (to Rome, or amongst Romane Catholicks) and there eat thy bread, and prophesie (or work

wonders) there. But prophesie no more at Be∣thel (at London, or amongst Hereticks) for it is the King's Chappel, and it is the King's Court. So the Protestant Bible, Amos 7. 12, 13. But ours hath it somewhat other∣wise, and adds: Amos answered and said un∣to Amasias, &c. Thou saist: thou shalt not pro∣phesie upon Israel; (that is, upon the Tribes of Israel that fell from Iuda; that is to say, upon Schismaticks, Sectaries, and He∣reticks, that fell from the Romane Catho∣lick Church) and thou shalt not still upon (or preach unto) the House of the Idol; (in Hebr. it is Risus) that is to say, upon the Idolatrous and ridiculous Protestant Reli∣gion. See 3 Regum 12. 26, &c. usque ad finem. For which, thus saith the Lord: Thy Wife, &c. Amos 7. 16, 17. He must be banisht then: and why? What harm has he done? Be∣cause he is contrary to the Protestant Bi∣shops, the rebellious and idolatrous Priests of Bethel; because he is holy, they wick∣ed; because he would convert the Nation to God, they would keep it in flavery to the Divel; because he works Miracles, they can work none: He must go therefore; he is gone then, blessed be God, even while they were consulting and saying, What shall we do? for this man doth many Mi∣racles. He is gone even before they re∣membred: if we let him go so, all will

believe and be converted by him; and the Roman Catholick Bishops shall come, and take both our Place, and our Dignity, which we have wrongfully kept from them, al∣most this hundred years. He is gone then.

3. Notwithstanding good God hath done his work, and his Servant whom he hath sent, hath also in an high degree fi∣nished his course: for even in the space of those five weeks he wrought more Mira∣cles before their faces, then we read were ever yet done, at any of the former Con∣versions of England; it remains then, that now they willingly believe and be convert∣ed to the Holy Roman-Catholick Church, or hereafter against their will suffer the heavy and just judgement of God which hastens to fall upon them. Wo be to the Sectaries and Hereticks of England, woe be to them (if now they be not converted) for if amongst the Turks and Infidels had been wrought the Miracles, that hath been done amongst them, they had done penance in hair-cloth and ashes long ago. They have seen devils cast out of possessed Bodies, the Blinde restored to their sight, the Deaf to their hearing, the Dumb to their speaking, the Lame to their going: in fine they have seen all sorts of infirmities cured before their eyes, by a Member of the Holy Ro∣man-Catholick Church, in confirmation of

her Faith and Doctrines, which are the Signs our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ told his Disciples should follow them that be∣lieve, that is to say, his Church, Mark 16. 17, 18, &c. so that they have no excuse, and that such of them as have not seen those Miracles may also have no excuse. but be as well satisfied, as they that have. I thought fit to present before their eyes, the matter of a dosen (which is enough here) of the persons upon whom some of those Miracles were wrought; by whose proper confession, and Neighbours relation they may be informed of the truth, which is as much satisfaction, as in reason they can expect.