A manuel of controversies clearly demonstrating the truth of Catholique religion by texts of Holy Scripture, councils of all ages, Fathers of the first 500 yeers, common sense and reason, and fully answering the principal objections of Protestants and all other sectaries / by H.T.

Fathers for this point.

IN the third Age S. Cyprian, A certain woman (saith he) when she would with unworthy hands have opened her coffer, wherein was the holy thing of our Lord (the B. Eucharist) fire sprung up, whereby she was so terrified, that she durst not touch it. Sermon de lapsis.

In the ••ourth age Optatus relates how the Heretiques caus'd the Eucharist to be thrown to dogs, which dogs thereupon all raging tore their Masters in pieces, as guilty of the holy Body. l. 2. contra Donatist.

In the same Age S. Gregory Nyssen recounts how S. Gregory Neocesa••iensis by his faith and prayers removed a mountain to make roome for the foundation of a church, according to that promise of Christ; If you have faith as a Mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, re∣move from hence thither, and it shall be done, and nothing shall be impossible to you. S. Mat. 17. 20. for which miracle he was called Thaumatur∣gus, in l. de vita S. Gregor. Nicephorus hath re∣corded the same miracle, l. 6. c. 7.

In the same Age S. Chrysostome affirms, that not only the reliques of S. Peter anid Paul did mi∣racles, and cured diseases, Acts 5. 12, 15, 19. but also the reliques of many other Saints; and he ex∣emplifies in S. Babilas the Martyr, whose mira∣cles

he records, l. de Babil. Martyre. tom: 5. in∣ferring from thence against Infidels, that Christ is God; who hath wrought such won∣ders by the dust of his servants.

In the same Age S. Ambrose reports, That his Brother Satyrus was miraculously preserved from drowning in a shipwrack by the B. Sacra∣ment of the Eucharist, which he had fastened in a stole about his neck. Funeral Oration on the death of Satyrus. c. 7.

In the fifth Age S. Augustine, having re∣counted many miracles wrought at S. Stephens Monument, which he himself was an eye-wit∣ness of, affirms at length, that if he should record all that he knew to have been done, he must fill books. l. de civitat. Dei 22. c. 8.