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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The next instance I will give is their abominable lying legends, by which they have befooled the people, and made themselves ridiculous to the world, and occasioned others to question their reports in other things. I shall give you a taste of some of them, as Doctor Featly hath gathered them to my hand in his Epistle to the foresaid conference, yet with the Authors that report them, that you may try whether ⟨p. 168⟩they be wronged. As that Saint Brigit laid her wimble, and Saint Aldelme his chasuble upon a Beam of the Sun which supported them (vit. Sanct. Brigit. & vit. S. Aldelmi.) That Saint Nicolas while he lay in his cradle fasted Wednesday and Friday; these days he would suck but once a day (Festivale de Sancto Nicol) That Saint Patrick caused a stolen Sheep to bleat in the belly of him that had eaten him (Legend. de St. Patricio) That the Corps of Saint Laurence at the coming of Saint Stephens •ody smiled for joy, and turned himself to the other side of the Sepulchre to make room for him (Legend. de S. Steph.) That Clemens wrote a letter to Saint James seven years after he was dead (Clem. Ep. ad Jac. in Ep. Pontif.) That Saint Denis carried his head in his hand three miles, and rested at each place of the posts, that are set between Paris and Saint Denis (Breu. & pictur. Dionys.) That Saint Dunstan held the Devil fast by the nose with a pair of Tongues (Leg. de Dunst.) That the chamber of our Lady was carried by Angels through the air from Palestine to Loretto in Italy (Hist. de Nostre Dame de Lor•tto.) That our Lady helped Saint Thomas Becket to mend or stitch his haircloth (Annot. in Clemanges ex Caesario.) That a Parrot crying out, Saint Thomas help me, was delivered from a Hawk (Legend. de Thom Cant.) That Saint Lupus did shut up the Devil in a Tankard all night (Legend. de Lupo.) That Saint Dominic made the Devil hold him the candle till he burnt his fingers (Legend. de Domin. vid. Melch. Can. loc. Theol.) That Saint Francis swallowing a Spider in a Chalice, it came whole out of his thigh (vid. Francis.) That Fryer Andrew to correct his appetite of eating Birds at the Table by ⟨p. 169⟩the sign of the Cross, commanded them to fly away after they were roasted (Sedu•• Francis.)