The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton.

  • Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.
Date:
1928
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Credit: The English-American : a new survey of the West Indies, 1648 / Thomas Gage ; edited with an introduction by A.P. Newton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    our said Convent of Orleans, and declare you to be assigned, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Gho£L Amen. Commanding the very Reverend Father Master Prior thereof that he receive you courteously, and entertain you with all love and charity. In witness whereof with our own hand we have subscribed these being sealed with the seal of our Office. Dated at Soriano the ninth day of April, 1640. Friar Nicholas Mailer of the Order. Friar Ignatius Ciantes Master Provincial of England and Companion. Yet after I had got this order, I bethought myself further that I would try one way, which was to see if I could find out a miracle,which might give me better satisfaction of the Romish religion than had the former experience of my life, and the lives of the priests, cardinals, and all such with whom I had lived in Spain and America. I had heard much of a picture of Our Lady of Loretto, and read in a Book of Miracles or lies concerning the same that whosoever prayed before that picture in the tate of mortal sin, the picture would discover the sin in the soul by blushing, and by sweating. Now I framed this argument to myself, that it was a great sin, the sin of unbelief, or to waver and tagger in points of faith; but in me (according to the tenets of Rome) was this sin, for I could not believe the point of transubtantiation, and many others; therefore (if the miracles which were printed of the aforesaid Lady of Loretto were true, and not lies) certainly she would blush and sweat when such an unbeliever as I prayed before her. To make this trial I went purposely to Loretto, and kneeling down before God, not with any faith I had in the picture, I prayed earnestly to the true searcher of all hearts,