Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 369
reverence for religion, they have been productive
of the most stupendous miracles in behalf of
their worshippers,
and for the vindication of the
truth. Had the reader only faith to believe, he
might be told of the wondrous cures performed
by the Holy Thorn ; how the bones of St. Gervaise
and St. Prolaise cured an old blind butcher;
how the relics of the saints have cast out devils,
and sent them yelling into the Red Sea in myriads
; and many other strange events, equally
true and marvellous.
But as the present design
is to give a just view of Popish relics, and not
to write their histor}^, I will mention only one
fact, which v/ill beget admiration even in Protestant
heretics.
Prince Christopher, of the family of the dukes
of Radzecil, having gone a pilgrimage to Rome
to kiss his Holiness' toe, received, a:s a reward
of his piety, a b)x of very precious relics.
These,
on his return home, becaine the consolation of
the aillicted, and the terror of the devil. Even
the most stubborn of those evil spirits, over
whom ordinary relics possessed no influence, acknowledged
their virtue in bellowings of submission.
Scarcely had a few months illustrated their
power, when some monks, with
humble intreaty,
requested the use of them for the benefit of
a man into whom the devil had entered. As
this foul fiend stuck to his new habitation with
the