Authentic documents relative to the miraculous cure of Winefrid White, of Wolverhampton, at St. Winefrid's Well, alias Holywell, in Flintshire, on the 28th of June 1805 : with observations thereon / by the R.R. J--- M-----.

  • John Milner
Date:
1806
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Credit: Authentic documents relative to the miraculous cure of Winefrid White, of Wolverhampton, at St. Winefrid's Well, alias Holywell, in Flintshire, on the 28th of June 1805 : with observations thereon / by the R.R. J--- M-----. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    they themselves had forged, or knew to have been for- ged* * * §.” Thus to indulge a favourite prejudice, he and [ those who argue with him, shut their eyes against the noontide light of heaven, and their ears against the voice of Eternal Truth itself, attesting the piety and acceptable- ness of the Catholic doctrines and rites. In like manner the Pharisees denied the notorious incontestable fact of the blind man having been restored to sight by our Saviour, in the face of innumerable witnesses, and of the man him- self, because they could not acknowledge this prodigy, without abandoning their preconceived resolution of not receiving Jesus as the great Messiah f. Lastly, there are not wanting those who scruple not to turn the acknowledged criterion of truth into a mark of falsehood, and the sanction of the Almighty into an attri- bute of Antichrist-];. These writers are so profane as to assert, that the miracles wrought in the Catholic Church are a proof that she belongs to that man of sin, the son of perdition whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all powers, and signs, and lying wonders. 2 Thess. ii. 9.§ * Ibid. p. 57. f St. John, c. 9. $ See Benson’s Essay on the Man of Sin, in the Collection of Theological Tracts, by R. Watson, D. D. Bishop of LandafF, vol. v. Also Kett’s History, the Interpreter of Prophecy, vol. ii. p. 22, &c. § The last mentioned writer, Kelt, endeavouring to draw a parallel between Antichrist, as described in the scripture, and the Pope, repre- sents the latter as pretending to make “fire come down from heaven, “ as in the case of St. Antony’s fire, &c.” This passage, I am sure, will puzzle all Catholics, and would puzzle the Pope himself, if he were to meet with it, to guess at its meaning. It is true that the Monks of St. Antony, or the Hospital Monks, were accustomed here- tofore to cure an inflammatory disorder called the Erysipellas, once very common in Italy, with hog’s lard, &c. (whence their pigs were allowed to graze free, and their patron Saint himself was painted with a pig, and whence also the disorder itself was called St. Antony's fire),
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