The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 577 pages of information about The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 577 pages of information about The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16.
He changes the salt-water into fresh.  He restores to a Mahometan his son, who was fallen into the sea.  He appears of an extraordinary height, and muck above his own stature.  He reassures the captain of the Santa Cruz, and the mariners.  He arrives at the isle of Sandan.  What passes betwixt Xavier and Veglio.  He foretels to Veglio, that he shall be advertised of the day of his death.  The prediction of the saint is accomplished in all its circumstances.  Other wonderful illuminations.  He raises up a dead man, and drives the tygers out of the island.  Endeavours are used in vain, to dissuade him from the voyage of China.  He takes his measures for the voyage of China.  The Portuguese of Sancian traverse the design of Xavier.  He defers his voyage, in consideration of the Portuguese merchants.  He writes divers letters to Malacca, and to Goa.  He gives orders to Father Francis Perez, and to Father Caspar Barzaeus.  He foretels the unhappy death of a merchant.  He is reduced to an extreme want of all necessaries.  The means fail him for his passage into China.  He is still in hope, and the expedient which he finds.  He falls sick again, and foreknows the day of his death.  The nature of his sickness, and how he was inwardly disposed.  He entertains himself with God in the extremity of his sickness.  He denounces to a young Indian, the unhappy death which was attending him.  The Death of the Saint.  His age and person.  Of the duties which were paid him immediately after his decease.  They inter him without any ceremony.  The miraculous crucifix in the chapel of the castle of Xavier.  He is disinterred, and his body is found without the least corruption.  The body of the saint is put on ship-board, to be transported into India.  How the body is received at Malacca.  The punishment of the governor of Malacca.  The town of Malacca is freed from the pestilence at the arrival of the holy body.  In what manner the body of the saint is treated in Malacca.  They consider of transporting the holy corpse to Goa.  The body is put into a crazed old ship, and what happens to it in the passage.  How the body is received at Cochin, and the miracle which is wrought at Baticula.  They come from Goa to meet the corpse.  How the corpse of the saint is received at Goa.  The miracles which are wrought, during the procession.  The body is placed in the church of Saint Paul.  New miracles are wrought in presence of the body.  The informations of the saint’s life are gathered in the Indies.  The people invoke him, and venerate his images.  They build churches in honour of him, in divers parts of the East.  The praises which are given him by infidels, and the honour they perform to him.  How much he is honoured at Japan.  His gift of prayer.  His love of God.  His charity towards his neighbour.  His zeal of souls.  The various industry of his zeal.  The condescendance of his zeal, and how dear the conversion of people costs him.  The extent of his zeal.  His intrepidity
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