Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

370 POPERY CONDEMNED BY
tjie Utmost stubbornness, and had disregarded
their most potent conjurations,
the Prince readily
complied : And no sooner were they applied
to the body of the demoniac, than the devil was
forced to decamp. The spectators exclaimed,
A miracle ! a miracle ! and the Prince lifted up
his heart and hands in pious gratitude to God,
for bestowing upon him such a holy and powerful
treasure.
Some time after, when the Prince was relating
to his friends this wonderful deliverance, and
extolling the virtues of his relics, one gentleman,
who had been in his retinue at Rome, discovered
uncommon incredulity.
Being posed to
account for his rejecting such plain evidence as
attended this transaction, he told him, that in
returning from Rome, he had unluckily lost the
box of relics, which had been entrusted to his
care. To screen himself, therefore, from his
resentment,
he had provided another exactly similar,
and filled it with bones and little trinkets
and this was the identical box v^hich had wrought
such great wonders.
Next morning, the Prince sent for the monks,
and asked, if they knew any other demoniac
who needed his relics. A person of this description
was easily found ; for the devil, in Popish
countries, is particularly remarkable for his spirit
of opposition, and is generally to be found
nestling in the neighbourhood of relics.
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