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.

Miracles of some others, taken out of their Lives.

POpe Iohn, when he came to Corinth, a Gentleman lent unto him a Horse whereon his Wife used often to ride, and when the Horse was sent back, he could never abide that the Woman should come on his back; so that it seemed, that Beast which had carried the greatest Man of Dignity and Authority in the World, disdained to be checked and ruled by a Woman; the Gentleman marking it, and holding it for a very strange thing, (as it was indeed,) sent the Horse to∣be given unto the Pope. Pag. 147.

A Ship, wherein were three hundred persons, being in a Storm, and in danger to be cast away, they recommended themselves to St. Iuvenal, and they saw him walk on the waves of the Sea, and the Tempest ceased. See his Life, p. 60.

St. Anthony was a corpulent man, but the Devil, displeased with his good life, molested him, and one night would have strangled him, and had already set his Hands to his Throat, so that he was in danger of death; but recommending him∣self to the glorious Virgin, and saying the Hymn, O Gloriosa Domina, the Devil left him, and vanished away. See his Life, p. 193.

St. Anthony had the gift of Tongues, with a pleasant, clear and ringing Voice; and though there was at his Sermons many Thousand persons of different Lan∣guages, yet they all understood him. As at Rome, where the People of sundry Nations listening unto him, and he preaching in the Italian Tongue, yet they all understood him.

Preaching one time in France, near Bruges, in the Field, because of the multitude of People, (it was Summer,) and whilst he preached it began to Thunder and Lighten grievously, wherefore the People doubting to be throughly wet, began to haste away to shelter; St. Anthony bid them be quiet, for they should not be wet; all the People gave credit to his words, and none stirred out of his place, then it began to rain very much throughout all the Countrey, but upon the People that heard his Sermon there fell not one Drop.

It hapned in the same Province in France, that a devout Woman was desirous to go to the Sermon of St. Anthony, but her Husband would not suffer her because she was sickly; she went up unto the top of her House, looking toward the place where he preached, and though she was two Miles off, yet she heard the words of the Preacher as if she had been hard by. Of this the Husband of the good Woman was witness, who calling her, and she answering, that she stayed there to hear the Sermon; he scoffed and derided at her words, and with some pain he went up to the place where his Wife was, and he also heard the words as plain as if he had been hard by.

One time St. Anthony preaching, he saw a Traveller approach unto a noble La∣dy which was at the Sermon, and speak unto her; the Saint seeing her much trou∣bled, and change her countenance; bid her (as he stood in the Pulpit) not to believe that false Messenger, who brought her news that her Son was dead, for it was a lye without doubt, and said withall, that he that told it her was the Devil. The wicked Fiend would by this Lye have disturbed the Sermon, but seeing himself discovered, he vanished away in all their sights.

St. Anthony being in Padua, it was revealed to him that his Father was in dan∣ger of death at Lisbon, being accused of Man-slaughter, whereof he was innocent; wherefore he asked leave of his Guardian, and having obtained it, he was carried in one Night onely (by an Angel) from Padua unto Lisbon. Being come thither he spoke with his Father, and brought to pass, that the Judges caused the dead Body to be brought before him; St. Anthony before much people asked him if his Father had killed him; the dead Body spake, and said No, and that he was falsly accused thereof. The Judge, having seen the strange Miracle, set free the Father of St. Anthony, who remained in his company all night, and the next day he was carried back from Lisbon unto Padua, as he had been brought thither.

One time St. Anthony Preaching at the Funerals of a rich man, and among other things discoursed upon these words, Where thy treasure is, there is thy heart; to con∣firm these words, the Father said, that the former words be true, it is evident in this Rich man, who was covetous, for his Heart was to be found in his Chest, where his Money lieth; forthwith some went and opened it, and there they found the Heart of the covetous man indeed, as fresh as if it had been taken out of the Breast of a Man.

It happened often at the end of the Sermons of St. Anthony, that the People de∣parted with such desire to be confessed, that the Confessours of his Order, and of the other Orders also were not sufficient to satisfie them. He also heard Confessi∣ons; among others he also heard the Confession of a Paduan, who told him that he had kicked his Mother; St. Anthony reproved him sharply, and told him that the Foot that had struck his Mother was worthy to be cut off: The words of St. An∣thony were of such force in the mind of him that was confessed, that when he came home, he himself cut off the same Foot; St. Anthony being advertised thereof, cau∣sed him to be brought unto him, and restored him his Foot again, with the sign of the Cross,