n he there saith of his
lady and mistress: read but superstitious Coster and Gretser's Tract _de
Cruce_, Laur. Arcturus _Fanteus de Invoc. Sanct._ Bellarmine, Delrio _dis.
mag. tom. 3. l. 6. quaest. 2. sect. 3._ Greg. Tolosanus _tom. 2. lib. 8.
cap. 24._ Syntax. Strozius Cicogna _lib. 4. cap. 9._ Tyreus, Hieronymus
Mengus, and you shall find infinite examples of cures done in this kind, by
holy waters, relics, crosses, exorcisms, amulets, images, consecrated
beads, &c. Barradius the Jesuit boldly gives it out, that Christ's
countenance, and the Virgin Mary's, would cure melancholy, if one had
looked steadfastly on them. P. Morales the Spaniard in his book _de pulch.
Jes. et Mar._ confirms the same out of Carthusianus, and I know not whom,
that it was a common proverb in those days, for such as were troubled in
mind to say, _eamus ad videndum filium Mariae_, let us see the son of Mary,
as they now do post to St. Anthony's in Padua, or to St. Hilary's at
Poitiers in France. [2829] In a closet of that church, there is at this day
St. Hilary's bed to be seen, "to which they bring all the madmen in the
country, and after some prayers and other ceremonies, they lay them down
there to sleep, and so they recover." It is an ordinary thing in those
parts, to send all their madmen to St. Hilary's cradle. They say the like
of St. Tubery in [2830] another place. Giraldus Cambrensis _Itin. Camb. c.
1._ tells strange stories of St. Ciricius' staff, that would cure this and
all other diseases. Others say as much (as [2831]Hospinian observes) of the
three kings of Cologne; their names written in parchment, and hung about a
patient's neck, with the sign of the cross, will produce like effects. Read
Lippomanus, or that golden legend of Jacobus de Voragine, you shall have
infinite stories, or those new relations of our [2832]Jesuits in Japan and
China, of Mat. Riccius, Acosta, Loyola, Xaverius's life, &c. Jasper Belga,
a Jesuit, cured a mad woman by hanging St. John's gospel about her neck,
and many such. Holy water did as much in Japan, &c. Nothing so familiar in
their works, as such examples.

But we on the other side seek to God alone. We say with David, Psal. xlvi.
1. "God is our hope and strength, and help in trouble, ready to be found."
For their catalogue of examples, we make no other answer, but that they are
false fictions, or diabolical illusions, counterfeit miracles. We cannot
deny but that it is an ordinary thing on St. Anthony'